how tomcat works revisited

code

// check if this is a request for a servlet or
// a static resource
// a request for a servlet begins with "/servlet/"
if (request.getUri().startsWith("/servlet/")) {
ServletProcessor1 processor = new ServletProcessor1();
processor.process(request, response);
}
else {
StaticResoureProcessor processor =
new StaticResourceProcessor();
processor.process(request, response);
}

private void parseRequest(SocketInputStream input, OutputStream output)
throws IOException, ServletException {
// Parse the incoming request line
input.readRequestLine(requestLine);
String method =
new String(requestLine.method, 0, requestLine.methodEnd);
String uri = null;
String protocol = new String(requestLine.protocol, 0,
requestLine.protocolEnd);
// Validate the incoming request line
if (method, length () < 1) {
throw new ServletException("Missing HTTP request method");
}
else if (requestLine.uriEnd < 1) {
throw new ServletException("Missing HTTP request URI");
}
// Parse any query parameters out of the request URI
int question = requestLine.indexOf("?");
if (question >= 0) {
request.setQueryString(new String(requestLine.uri, question + 1,
requestLine.uriEnd - question - 1));
uri = new String(requestLine.uri, 0, question);
}
else {
request.setQueryString(null);
uri = new String(requestLine.uri, 0, requestLine.uriEnd);
}
// Checking for an absolute URI (with the HTTP protocol)
if (!uri.startsWith("/")) {
int pos = uri.indexOf("://");
// Parsing out protocol and host name
if (pos != -1) {
pos = uri.indexOf('/', pos + 3);
if (pos == -1) {
uri = "";
}
else {
uri = uri.substring(pos);
}
}
}
// Parse any requested session ID out of the request URI
String match = ";jsessionid=";
int semicolon = uri.indexOf(match);
if (semicolon >= 0) {
String rest = uri.substring(semicolon + match,length());
int semicolon2 = rest.indexOf(';');
if (semicolon2 >= 0) {
request.setRequestedSessionId(rest.substring(0, semicolon2));
rest = rest.substring(semicolon2);
}
else {
request.setRequestedSessionId(rest);
rest = "";
}
request.setRequestedSessionURL(true);
uri = uri.substring(0, semicolon) + rest;
} 
else {
request.setRequestedSessionId(null);
request.setRequestedSessionURL(false);
}
// Normalize URI (using String operations at the moment)
String normalizedUri = normalize(uri);
// Set the corresponding request properties
((HttpRequest) request).setMethod(method);
request.setProtocol(protocol);
if (normalizedUri != null) {
((HttpRequest) request).setRequestURI(normalizedUri);
}
else {
((HttpRequest) request).setRequestURI(uri);
}
if (normalizedUri == null) {
throw new ServletException("Invalid URI: " + uri + "'");
}
}