Re: / on end of context paths breaking existing apps

2011-08-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 22/08/2011 14:49, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Tim, > > On 8/21/2011 5:49 PM, Tim Whittington wrote: >> The change in [1] has broken existing behaviour in some >> applications. > > To echo some of Mark's comments: > >> Consider the following situation: - An application is context >> path /app

Re: / on end of context paths breaking existing apps

2011-08-22 Thread Christopher Schultz
Tim, On 8/21/2011 5:49 PM, Tim Whittington wrote: > The change in [1] has broken existing behaviour in some applications. To echo some of Mark's comments: > Consider the following situation: > - An application is context path /application > - The application has a servlet mapped to /* So, the o

Re: / on end of context paths breaking existing apps

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Thomas
On 21/08/2011 22:49, Tim Whittington wrote: > The change in [1] has broken existing behaviour in some applications. > > Consider the following situation: > - An application is context path /application > - The application has a servlet mapped to /* > - An authentication valve intercepts requests t

/ on end of context paths breaking existing apps

2011-08-21 Thread Tim Whittington
The change in [1] has broken existing behaviour in some applications. Consider the following situation: - An application is context path /application - The application has a servlet mapped to /* - An authentication valve intercepts requests to /application and returns (via a RequestDispatcher.forw