In a web.xml url-pattern matcher is there a way to exclude URLs?

Question

I wrote a filter that needs to be invoked every time a url on my site is accessed EXCEPT the CSS, JS, and IMAGE files. So in my definition I\'d like to have something like

Answer 1

The URL pattern mapping does not support exclusions. This is a limitation of the Servlet specification. You can try the manual workaround posted by Mr.J4mes.