Blocking access to a file extension

[Fernando Vissentini]

Hi, is there anyway to block the access to a file that has a specific extension in the tomcat configuration? for instance: I wanna block files with extensions EXE to be accessed.

[Bear Bibeault]

Then why have them under your web app root in the first place?

You might get better responses if you informed us what the exe files are used for.

[William Brogden]

I suppose you could map the extension to a servlet that said "not allowed"
Look at the way *.jsp is mapped to the JspServlet in the default web.xml for an example.
Bill