A geronimo user has recently reported a problem forwarding/including
HEAD requests and it looks like a bug to me.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3896
briefly...
tomcat complains:
Servlet.service() for servlet SimpleDispatchServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Original SevletResponse or wrapped
original ServletResponse not passed to
RequestDispatcher in violation of SRV.8.2 and SRV.14.2.5.1
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.checkSameObjects
(ApplicationDispatcher.java:985)
...
The relevant code seems to be in javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet
protected void doHead(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException
{
NoBodyResponse response = new NoBodyResponse(resp);
doGet(req, response);
response.setContentLength();
}
which is fine but
class NoBodyResponse implements HttpServletResponse {
rather than
class NoBodyResponse extends HttpServletResponseWrapper {
The patch attached to the jira issue makes this change and adapts
NoBodyResponse to be a subclass of HttpServletResponseWrapper and the
user reports that it fixes the problem. I don't know if there would
be formatting issues applying the patch to tomcat's copy of the spec
classes.
I wondered if there would be consensus that this is a bug and the
proposed fix is appropriate?
thanks
david jencks
