webdav servlet problems with Tomcat 5.0.24 and IE

[Roy Gardner]

I posted a bug (29094) on 19/04/04. The webdav webapp shipped with 
Tomcat 5.0.24 does not serve web folders to IE5 and IE6. The server 
platform is Solaris 8 on Sun. The same behaviour is exhibited when 
running Tomcat 5.0.24 on Mac OS X 10.3.3.

This is the case despite the following, recommended, web.xml setting 
which is supposed to deal with bugs in IE:

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
The problem does not occur in the webdav webapp supplied with Tomcat 
4.1.12 even though its web.xml contains:

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
ie. the pattern that would evoke the IE bug.
Any insights would be welcome.