Lee Yeow Leong wrote:
> I'm experiencing some differences in the behaviour of Tomcat vs
> Websphere and IAS.
>
> Assuming that I have a web application called test. Inside the code
> of a servlet in the web application, I perform the following
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/");
> dispatcher.forward(request,response);
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Should the above the resolve to
>
> a) http://<hostname>/
> b) http://<hostname>/<webapp context>/
>
>
> Websphere 3.5 and IAS6 resolves to (b), while Tomcat resolves to (a).
>
You do not say which version of Tomcat you are trying this with, but both 3.2b8
and 4.0m4 correctly resolve to (b) if you execute this inside a servlet running
in the specified webapp. If you were running in the root context, of course,
(b) would be equivalent to (a).
Craig McClanahan
