Why does this pattern not map to the fitler?

[Dan Bizman]

If I map:

<url-pattern>/secure/login</url-pattern>

to my filter (login is not a servlet, it's a fake name), then when the browser points there, it never calls the filter. HOWEVER, if I map the following:

<url-pattern>*login</url-pattern>

and then point to "/secure/login" in the browser it DOES call the filter.

Why is that? Isn't that a mistake?

The following also never calls the filter: "/secure/*login".

[Bear Bibeault]

Let's keep the discussion of your filter mapping issues to the existing topics.
[ October 27, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]