RE: Two serious issues have been introduced in Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8...

2015-02-24 Thread Doug Forrest
> I agree the API is bad in the end, you don't really know which context is > being returned. For example if the context you're requesting is not > deployed, you'll get the root context and a random error when using it. I'm confused about why people think this behavior is random. It is not the AP

RE: Two serious issues have been introduced in Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8...

2015-02-23 Thread Doug Forrest
tforms Matrix for our product and specifically exclude a couple of patch releases of Tomcat 7 and 8. I don't want to have to exclude all future patches of Tomcat 8. Regards, Doug Forrest

Two serious issues have been introduced in Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8...

2015-02-23 Thread Doug Forrest
ional 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 o