Hi guys, I'm happily using Maverick for over 3 years now, and was really
surprised to discover this.
When HEAD http request comes to a view (in my case used by host uptime
monitor), I have following stacktrace:
2005-09-13 22:22:46,875 [http-9094-Processor23] ERROR
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/].[dispatcher]
- Servlet.service() for servlet dispatcher threw exception
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The previous step never tried to write
anything. Perhaps the document path is incorrect?
at
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse.getOutputAsString(FakeHttpServletResponse.java:99)
at
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.StringTransformStep.done(StringTransformStep.java:87)
at
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.DocumentTransform$Step.go(DocumentTransform.java:114)
at org.infohazard.maverick.view.DocumentView.go(DocumentView.java:96)
at
org.infohazard.maverick.flow.ViewWithTransforms.go(ViewWithTransforms.java:57)
at org.infohazard.maverick.flow.CommandBase.go(CommandBase.java:79)
at org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher.service(Dispatcher.java:345)
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.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doForward(PageContextImpl.java:693)
at
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.forward(PageContextImpl.java:660)
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.index_jsp:45)
at
.....
Here is debug log:
2005-09-13 22:22:46,861 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher - Command servlet path is: /home.m
2005-09-13 22:22:46,861 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher - Command context path is:
2005-09-13 22:22:46,861 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.Dispatcher - Servicing command: home
2005-09-13 22:22:46,864 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.flow.CommandBase - Switching to view: success
2005-09-13 22:22:46,864 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.flow.MaverickContext - Set 2 transform(s), of
which 2 will be executed
2005-09-13 22:22:46,864 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.flow.MaverickContext - Creating transform step 0
2005-09-13 22:22:46,864 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.DocumentTransform - Wrapping text with
length 0
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.flow.MaverickContext - Creating transform step 1
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.DocumentTransform - Transforming
(include) with document: home.html
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.AbstractTransformStep - Getting fake
response
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Creating fake
response, original buffer size is 8192
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Set header ETag to
W/"896-1126216638000"
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Set header
Last-Modified to Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:57:18 GMT
2005-09-13 22:22:46,865 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Setting
contentType to text/html
2005-09-13 22:22:46,866 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Someone wanted to
set contentLength to 896
2005-09-13 22:22:46,866 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.transform.StringTransformStep - Done being
written to
2005-09-13 22:22:46,866 [http-9094-Processor23] DEBUG
org.infohazard.maverick.util.FakeHttpServletResponse - Getting output as
String
2005-09-13 22:22:46,875 [http-9094-Processor23] ERROR
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/].[dispatcher]
- Servlet.service() for servlet dispatcher threw exception
And i makes sense because:
<quote from http://www.w3.org>
The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return
a message-body in the response. The metainformation contained in the HTTP
headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the
information sent in response to a GET request. This method can be used for
obtaining metainformation about the entity implied by the request without
transferring the entity-body itself. This method is often used for testing
hypertext links for validity, accessibility, and recent modification.
</quote>
I made a test through "Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer":
http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
Can someone think of any workaround?
Vladimir Yusseem
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