By default exclude files from /WEB-INF from resources plugin processing

Author: graemerocher

grails-core/src/main/groovy/org/codehaus/groovy/grails/commons/cfg/ConfigurationHelper.groovy

@@ -178,6 +178,16 @@ class ConfigurationHelper {
         if (isLocations(locations)) {
             mergeInLocations(config, (List)locations, resolver, classLoader)
         }
+
+        // Sets defaults for non-present settings
+        initDefaultConfiguration(config)
+    }
+
+    static void initDefaultConfiguration(ConfigObject config) {
+        def resourcesConfig = config.grails.resources
+        if(!resourcesConfig.adhoc.excludes) {
+            resourcesConfig.adhoc.excludes = ['/WEB-INF/**']
+        }
     }
 
     private static getLocations(ConfigObject config) {

grails-resources/src/grails/grails-app/conf/Config.groovy

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ grails.mime.types = [ // the first one is the default format
 
 // What URL patterns should be processed by the resources plugin
 grails.resources.adhoc.patterns = ['/images/*', '/css/*', '/js/*', '/plugins/*']
+grails.resources.adhoc.excludes = ['/WEB-INF/**']
 
 // Legacy setting for codec used to encode data with ${}
 grails.views.default.codec = "html"