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  Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have
Subject:   Surely a ClassCastException risk?
Date:   2008-11-07 18:23:33
From:   corlettk
A couple of RFC's?:


1. GZIPFilter.doFilter doesn't pass non-http requests down the chain, effectively killing them? Surely that's a bug!


2. CacheFilter.doFilter doesn't instanceof HttpServletRequest (or res), it just casts req. Surely that'd throw a ClassCastException for any non-http request.


And a wish: I'd expect to find both these filters (premade and super-thoroughly tested) in an enterprise server, so all gumbies like me have to do is configure them via the console.


And a wee whinge: No source code in the jar. You inveterate putz!

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