Yeah I'm now doing a null check before the sendRedirect.
But why doesn't it throw a NullPointerException, doesn't setting the
Location header boil down eventually to a string concat, which in this case
be attempted on a null reference?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tim Funk <funk...@apache.org> wrote:
> LiveHttHeaders is your friend ...
> Lets assume I have this as foo.jsp:
>
> <%
> response.sendRedirect(null);
> if (out!=null) {return;}
> %>
>
> http://localhost/foo.jsp
>
> GET /foo.jsp HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
>
> HTTP/1.x 302 Moved Temporarily
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
> Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
> Content-Length: 0
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:33:15 GMT
>
>
> With no Location header in the response - some browsers will giveup. Others
> may redirect to the original URL. Others may do odder things.
>
> -Tim
>
> Jonathan Mast wrote:
>
>> A null value in bounce_url is causing the original Request url to be
>> invoked
>> exactly 20 times, rather than dying with NullPointerException:
>>
>
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