[Bug 56637] New: ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("resources/config.xml") should return null instead of throwing exception

[bugzilla]

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56637

            Bug ID: 56637
           Summary: ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("resources/config.x
                    ml") should return null instead of throwing exception
           Product: Tomcat 8
           Version: 8.0.8
          Hardware: PC
            Status: NEW
          Severity: regression
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
          Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org
          Reporter: zhouyanm...@gmail.com

if resource name is not starts with '/',tomcat8 will throws exception,and
tomcat7 will return null.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The resource path [resources/config.xml] is
not valid
    at
org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.validate(StandardRoot.java:237)
    at
org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:199)
    at
org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:193)
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContext.java:559)
    at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContextFacade.java:209)

according to
http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/servlet/ServletContext.html#getResourceAsStream(java.lang.String)
it should return null instead of throwing exception.

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