I believe this was a bug in ServerServlet in the 1.1M1 snapshot that has since been corrected. I usually work out of trunk and it doesn't affect me any more. This thread describes it and has a patch:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@restlet.tigris.org/msg03451.html There should be a new milestone snapshot imminently. I am still investigating this on my own and just thought I would see if > someone else had run into this problem and already had an answer to it. >