title: spring mvc how to bypass DispatcherServlet for *.html files?
body: <p>web.xml fragment</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Handles all requests into the application --&gt;
  &lt;servlet&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;servlet-class&gt;org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet&lt;/servlet-class&gt;
      &lt;init-param&gt;
          &lt;param-name&gt;contextConfigLocation&lt;/param-name&gt;
          &lt;param-value&gt;/WEB-INF/spring/app-config.xml&lt;/param-value&gt;
      &lt;/init-param&gt;
      &lt;load-on-startup&gt;1&lt;/load-on-startup&gt;
  &lt;/servlet&gt;
  &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works fine but I'd like to NOT let the Dispatcher Servlet handle *.html requests. How do I I do that? Thanks. </p>