I'm trying to figure out a particular strange problem with
request.getPathInfo() data being truncated. This has to do with SES /
Friendly URLs in which data is append on the path info part of the
request URI. On the framework project I work on, we've seen developers
put data into SES URL -- in order to keep the URI compliant for web
servers we URL encode special characters (i.e. & -> &). As you may
know, anything can be game in URLs theses days.
Anyways, the problem we're seeing with Tomcat is that it incorrectly
parses the pathInfo when a ";" is present. Since an example is worth a
million words, here is example request URI (yes, CFML engine here
deployed as a WAR):
/index.cfm/somePathInfo&withMoreInfo/
One would expect the path info data to be:
/somePathInfo&withMoreInfo/
However Tomcat truncates everything after start the ";". The end result
when calling request.getPathInfo() is:
/somePathInfo&
I know that Apache is passing the correct information to Tomcat because
request.getRequestURI() returns the full path including the complete
path info. The problem is this breaks the path info because it is not
the path info has been truncated. There is nothing in the servlet specs
that I can find that says that ";" cannot be in the path info and it
seems valid according to the RFCs available that ";" in path info is a
valid character.
I've done a bit of poking around in the Tomcat code base, but nothing
jumps out at me at where this going wrong (although I could be looking
in the wrong places). Does anybody know where this is going wrong? If
so I'd like to know so I can file ticket regarding this problem.
.Peter
