Author: markt Date: Mon Nov 26 11:08:02 2012 New Revision: 1413552 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1413552&view=rev Log: Fix https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54198 Clarify that sendError(int) results in an HTML response.
Modified: tomcat/trunk/java/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.java Modified: tomcat/trunk/java/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.java URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/java/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.java?rev=1413552&r1=1413551&r2=1413552&view=diff ============================================================================== --- tomcat/trunk/java/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.java (original) +++ tomcat/trunk/java/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.java Mon Nov 26 11:08:02 2012 @@ -116,13 +116,13 @@ public interface HttpServletResponse ext public String encodeRedirectUrl(String url); /** - * Sends an error response to the client using the specified status. The - * server defaults to creating the response to look like an HTML-formatted - * server error page containing the specified message, setting the content - * type to "text/html", leaving cookies and other headers unmodified. If an - * error-page declaration has been made for the web application - * corresponding to the status code passed in, it will be served back in - * preference to the suggested msg parameter. + * Sends an error response to the client using the specified status code and + * clears the output buffer. The server defaults to creating the response to + * look like an HTML-formatted server error page containing the specified + * message, setting the content type to "text/html", leaving cookies and + * other headers unmodified. If an error-page declaration has been made for + * the web application corresponding to the status code passed in, it will + * be served back in preference to the suggested msg parameter. * <p> * If the response has already been committed, this method throws an * IllegalStateException. After using this method, the response should be @@ -141,11 +141,8 @@ public interface HttpServletResponse ext /** * Sends an error response to the client using the specified status code and - * clearing the buffer. - * <p> - * If the response has already been committed, this method throws an - * IllegalStateException. After using this method, the response should be - * considered to be committed and should not be written to. + * clears the buffer. This is equivalent to calling {@link #sendError(int, + * String)} with the same status code and <code>null</code> for the message. * * @param sc * the error status code --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org