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> REPORT #694 Details.
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> Project: Tomcat
> Category: Bug Report
> SubCategory: New Bug Report
> Class: swbug
> State: received
> Priority: high
> Severity: serious
> Confidence: public
> Environment:
> Release: tomcat 3.2
> JVM Release: 1.2
> Operating System: win NT
> OS Release: 4.0
> Platform: pentium windows NT
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> Synopsis:
> Get Not found (404) for a mapped servlet if the Path Info is not null
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> Description:
> If I have a servle SnoopServlet mapped to /snoop. I can access the servlet in two
>different ways:
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> http://localhost:8080/snoop or
> http://localhost:8080/servlet/SnoopServlet
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> but If add some String to the Path to make the first url look like
>http://localhost:8080/snoop/test. The URL will return error, ie. File not found (404)
> However,
> http://localhost:8080/servlet/SnoopServlet/test works.
If you map to "/snoop" (an exact match rule), it will only match a
the (context-relative) URI "/snoop". It's not a bug; it's the way it's
supposed to work.
If you want to match all URIs starting with "/snoop" you need to map
to "/snoop/*" (a path prefix rule). Note the wildcard "*" at the end.
Hans
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Hans Bergsten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com
Author of JavaServer Pages (O'Reilly), http://TheJSPBook.com
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