The issues were introduced by r1645015 in 7.x and r1644992 in 8.x. Both issues
are related to ApplicationContext.getContext(String uri).
Issue 1:
getContext("/ROOT") no longer works. In fact, it doesn't appear to be possible
to get the ROOT context using this method any more since the literal uri for
ROOT would be "" and the first functional line in the method rejects any uri
that doesn't start with "/". This is a serious issue that will break many of my
customers if they apply a patch containing this code.
Suggested fix:
if (uri.equals("/ROOT")) uri = "";
at line 269.
Issue 2:
getContext now only returns a valid context if its path matches the passed in
uri exactly. This is a huge problem for multiple reasons.
This is a major change in functionality that should not have been introduced in
a patch release. This code has accepted a uri that contains path information
past the context root for many years across many releases. This behavior
mirrors the behavior of every major servlet container available. There is a
large amount of existing code out in the wild that relies on this behavior. If
an intentional decision were made to change this method to require an exact
match, it would be prudent to make such a change in a major release to give
users and integrators an opportunity to react to the change.
I don't have a suggested fix for this issue, but I would be happy to come up
with one if required.
Thank you for your time.
Doug Forrest
Principal Escalations Engineer
OpenText
Since I am brand new to this list, a quick note about me: I work in support at
a very large software company. My team is responsible for level 3 support and
defect fixes for a large J2EE enterprise web content management application.
Our product has supported Tomcat as a servlet container for content delivery
applications since the early 2000s. Many of our customers use Tomcat for their
production servlet container and it is the go to choice for our internal repro
environments.
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