Yup - Craig is of course quite right. I've noted the confusing javadoc comments
and incorrect example as a javadoc bug for us to fix.
- Danny -
Danny Coward
Servlet Spec Lead & Web Java
Java Software Group, Sun Microsystems
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> > But what about about absolute URLs in requests?
> >
> > For example, if the request line looks like:
> >
> > GET http://java.sun.com:80/index.html HTTP/1.1
> >
> > The documentation for getRequestURI() specifies that the value
> > returned contains the protocol part up until the start of the query
> > string, which seems to be in conflict with the other requirements
> > specified above.
> >
>
> At least for the 2.2 specification, that statement in the Javadoc comments is
> incomplete, because it fails to point out that the scheme, host, and port are
> stripped off for the request URI. In addition, the second example case is
> incorrect. In your example above, the getRequestURI() call should return
> "/index.html".
>
> >
> > Can somebody clarify this? What should getRequestURI() and
> > getContextPath() return in this case?
> >
>
> As mentioned above, getRequestURI() returns "/index.html". You cannot examine
> a request URI and determine what getContextPath() will return unless you know
> how context paths have been configured in your server. For example, consider
> the case of Jakarta Tomcat in it's default configuration, which has a context
> mapped to "/examples" along with the default context.
>
> Given a request URI "/examples/index.html" you will get a context path of
> "/examples".
>
> Given a request URI of "/otherdir/index.html", you will get a context path of
> "" because it will be handled by the default context.
>
> >
> > Stan Bailes
> > Quadcap Software
> > http://www.quadcap.com
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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