Apache Rewrites Config

Hi,

I'm curious to know if the problem I'm currently faced would be
solvable using Apache Rewrites etc:

I have requests coming into my Apache server with the *.asp extension.
I need to take these requests and forward them onto my Servlet
container(possibly Tomcat) but with the *.jsp extension. This needs to
be done without sending back a HTTP 302 etc. i.e. the client does not
know that the request was responded to by a Servlet container.

As an example: a request via HTTP POST is made for
www.mysite.com/dir1/dosomething.asp, I have a Servlet container with a
Java Server Page dosomething.jsp - can I use Apache with Rewrites to
convert the .asp to .jsp, and then allow the Servlet container to
process and send back the results on the same HTTP connection?

I have also looked at using proxying to do this - I'm not sure what
the easiest solution would be?

Do you also know of any Apache documentation that explains the Request
lifecycle, documenting the order in which rewrites, handlers, and
filters get applied.

Thankyou for your time.

Regards
Jeremy Cook

Jeremy Cook <jeremycook123.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
 > I have requests coming into my Apache server with the *.asp extension.
 > I need to take these requests and forward them onto my Servlet
 > container(possibly Tomcat) but with the *.jsp extension.

Can't you just tell your servlet container to handle .asp as .jsp?
I mean, the Application Servlet doesn't care about the extension of
the file, if the file is correct. Just tell him to processo .asp
instead of .jsp.

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