What should the behaviour be if I call forward() on
a RequestDispatcher that (I know) doesn't exist?
(Ya, ya, I get the same behaviour as if I didn't know
it doesn't exist :-)
For example:
getServletContext().
getRequestDispatcher("/I_know_this_page_doesnt_exist.html").
forward(request, response);
I would expect a NullPointerException but that is not what I get.
Instead, I see the following output in my browser window (Mozilla 0.92):
<html><body></body></html>
Or "The document contains no data" from Netscape 4.7.
And, if I use lwp-request I get a 404 error which is reasonable.
What "should" I get?
The javadoc for ServletContext says:
"This method returns null if the ServletContext cannot
return a RequestDispatcher for any reason."
But I'm not sure what that reason might be given that a bogus URL
doesn't seem to do it. Also, the spec doesn't say anything about
bad URLs.
Thanks,
Kevin.
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