Hi Tomcat Users, I was wondering if anyone knows of documentation or forum discussions around areas of the Java Sevlet Spec that Tomcat does not support. I noticed that the Tomcat implementation for HttpServletRequest getContextPath() returns a decoded string. The 2.3 and 2.4 spec and the API documentation state that "the container does not decode this string." As an application programmer, it is difficult to determine the best way to handle different behavior across containers when they do not conform to the spec. Anyway, I decided to log a bug on Tomcat. See...
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39503 I was a little surprised by the response and the fact that development didn't seem too interested in the issue... "First of all, let me state that I don't care at all about the nonsensical things the specification says, and which has slipped in for whatever unintended reason. I will let you reopen the report if you wish to, but will ignore it completely, and let me assure you this will never get fixed." It's not a big deal, and I'll live with the decision but I was curious if there were posts or information about the process to determine what parts of the spec were not essential or just not clear. Is there information on any other areas of the spec that Tomcat has chosen not to implement or conform to? Granted, the spec is not always clear and there's room for interpretation, but it would be nice to know in advance where one might see divergence in containers. Thanks for any info. Kind regards, Carlin
