Okay, my bad - I was forwarding to path missing a leading / so the 404
was probably from not finding the JSP to display the error.
Thanks for the quick reply
Erik
On 11/11/05, Erik Eide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Peter
>
> Thats works fine, I'm not using getWriter() as that was just an
> example, I forward to a JSP for displaying the error message.
>
> Erik
>
> On 11/11/05, Peter Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Erik Eide schrieb:
> > Hi
> > >
> > > I've a small REST web service, I'd like to deploy in Tomcat 5.5.12.
> > >
> > > When I try and return status code 409 (Conflict) and an error message
> > > in the response body for a POST operation, Tomcat seems to overwrite
> > > the status code with a 404 (Not Found).
> > >
> > > If I do not return a response body, the original status code 409 is
> > > retained. RFC 2616 seems to suggest that its cool to return a response
> > > body with a 409, so I wonder if there is something else I'm doing
> > > incorrectly or have forgotten to configure ?
> > >
> > > Sample:
> > >
> > > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> > > response)
> > > throws ServletException, IOException {
> > > OutputStreamWriter writer = new
> > > OutputStreamWriter(response.getOutputStream());
> > > writer.write("Entity already exists");
> > > response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_CONFLICT);
> > > }
> > >
> > Try setting the status code before writing to the response.
> > Btw: why don't you use response.getWriter()?
> > This sends the correct response with body on my tomcat (5.5.12):
> >
> > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> > response) throws ServletException {
> > try {
> > hsrs.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_CONFLICT);
> > PrintWriter pw = hsrs.getWriter();
> > pw.write("do post has a conflict");
> >
> > } catch (IOException e) {
> > log.severe(e.getMessage());
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
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