What's the difference between getRequestURI and getPathInfo methods in HttpServletRequest?

Question

I\'m making a simple, very lightweight front-controller. I need to match request paths to different handlers (actions) in order to choose the correct one.

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Answer 1

Consider the following servlet conf:

   
        NewServlet
        NewServlet
    
    
        NewServlet
        /NewServlet/*
    

Now, when I hit the URL http://localhost:8084/JSPTemp1/NewServlet/jhi, it will invoke NewServlet as it is mapped with the pattern described above.

Here:

getRequestURI() =  /JSPTemp1/NewServlet/jhi
getPathInfo() = /jhi

We have those ones:

• getPathInfo()

  returns
  a String, decoded by the web container, specifying extra path information that comes after the servlet path but before the query string in the request URL; or null if the URL does not have any extra path information

• getRequestURI()

  returns
  a String containing the part of the URL from the protocol name up to the query string