[jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-5216) CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=12877403#action_12877403 ] Matthias Koch commented on GERONIMO-5216: - are there any news about this ? kr Matthias CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context Key: GERONIMO-5216 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216 Project: Geronimo Issue Type: Bug Security Level: public(Regular issues) Components: Tomcat Affects Versions: 2.2 Reporter: Matthias Koch Assignee: Jay D. McHugh An app deployed to the root context should have returned by getContextRoot() - On Tomcat, we are returning /. dcherk wrote: I am deploying my war file into the root context with the following deployment plan: -- web-app xmlns=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0; xmlns:dep=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2; xmlns:naming=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2; xmlns:security=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.2; ... context-root/context-root ... /web-app -- The application starts up properly, and responds on http://localhost, as expected. However, when I examine request.getContextPath(), I get a forward slash: /. This is incorrect, as far as I can tell. According to the API (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getContextPath()): -- For servlets in the default (root) context, this method [HttpServletRequest.html.getContextPath()] returns . -- -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
[jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-5216) CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=12851427#action_12851427 ] Jay D. McHugh commented on GERONIMO-5216: - Hey Matthias, It looks like this must be a problem with how the tag library is processing the c:url tag. I will try to take a look as soon as I have some time. Jay CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context Key: GERONIMO-5216 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216 Project: Geronimo Issue Type: Bug Security Level: public(Regular issues) Components: Tomcat Affects Versions: 2.2 Reporter: Matthias Koch Assignee: Jay D. McHugh An app deployed to the root context should have returned by getContextRoot() - On Tomcat, we are returning /. dcherk wrote: I am deploying my war file into the root context with the following deployment plan: -- web-app xmlns=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0; xmlns:dep=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2; xmlns:naming=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2; xmlns:security=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.2; ... context-root/context-root ... /web-app -- The application starts up properly, and responds on http://localhost, as expected. However, when I examine request.getContextPath(), I get a forward slash: /. This is incorrect, as far as I can tell. According to the API (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getContextPath()): -- For servlets in the default (root) context, this method [HttpServletRequest.html.getContextPath()] returns . -- -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
[jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-5216) CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=12851573#action_12851573 ] Matthias Koch commented on GERONIMO-5216: - Hi Jay, yes the problem can be fixed when changing all jstl libs to prevent // in jakarta taglibs 1.1.2 they will do this, if you enter a context value in the tag. but they won't check for // if context value is not defined in tag. for this i already build have a patch, but this is not the only jstl lib who did this way. as for me i also use the spring taglibs which will produce the same problem. the problem is that tomcat only returns a empty string when webapp dir is called ROOT but for geronimo ROOT is not possible i have tried to look into the code of tomcat and geronimo to find the place where this could be fixed, but i haven't found it yet (first look into those source code) maybe its possible to patch the Request class from tomcat in method: setContextPath there is a check if path is null, this can be extended to also check if its only / but i think this would be a ugly hack. kr Matthias CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps deployed to root context Key: GERONIMO-5216 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216 Project: Geronimo Issue Type: Bug Security Level: public(Regular issues) Components: Tomcat Affects Versions: 2.2 Reporter: Matthias Koch Assignee: Jay D. McHugh An app deployed to the root context should have returned by getContextRoot() - On Tomcat, we are returning /. dcherk wrote: I am deploying my war file into the root context with the following deployment plan: -- web-app xmlns=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0; xmlns:dep=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2; xmlns:naming=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2; xmlns:security=http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.2; ... context-root/context-root ... /web-app -- The application starts up properly, and responds on http://localhost, as expected. However, when I examine request.getContextPath(), I get a forward slash: /. This is incorrect, as far as I can tell. According to the API (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getContextPath()): -- For servlets in the default (root) context, this method [HttpServletRequest.html.getContextPath()] returns . -- -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
