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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39844

           Summary: non-HTTP forward will alway result NullPointerException
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.5.17
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


When forwarding with customed ServletRequest/ServletResponse (which implement
javax.servlet.ServletRequest and javax.servlet.ServletResponse) will alway
result an NullPointerException, stack trace as follow:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:453)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:341)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
        at xxx.TestServlet.doGet(TestServlet.java:40)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

I suspect these is logical bug:

        // Identify the HTTP-specific request and response objects (if any)
        HttpServletRequest hrequest = null;
        if (request instanceof HttpServletRequest)
            hrequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
        HttpServletResponse hresponse = null;
        if (response instanceof HttpServletResponse)
            hresponse = (HttpServletResponse) response;

        // Handle a non-HTTP forward by passing the existing request/response
        if ((hrequest == null) || (hresponse == null)) {

            if ( log.isDebugEnabled() )
                log.debug(" Non-HTTP Forward");
            
            processRequest(hrequest,hresponse);

        }

If "hrequest" or "hresponse" is null, why we are giving up "request" and
"response" here?

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