Steven,
This seems to be a bug in Cactus and your solution is an excellent idea (we
should check for a 200 HTTP status code). Please come along and help improve
Cactus. I'm waiting for your patch.
Thanks
-Vincent
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Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: starting tomcat to run servlet tests
> Hi, I'm new to this list and have spent a while looking through the
> archives for some info on this so forgive me if it's come up before.
>
> I want to use the optional task to start tomcat, run my servlet tests
> then stop tomcat but I've come across a problem. The code takes a url
> and polls that until it get's a response so it knows that tomcat is
> running before running tests. My problem is that I have quite a
> complicated initialisation servlet which takes a short while to complete
> but before it does, tomcat returns a 404(file not found code). This
> however is interpreted as a sign that tomcat is ready so ant starts to
> run the tests. They fail. My solution is to put a further check in the
> code to make sure that a 404 is not returned before continuing. I'm
> quite happy to do this and submit the code back in but I wanted to check
> that no-one else has done this or that there's not a better solution out
> there already.
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Steven Shand.
>
