Created attachment 27809 [details] Sample webapp that demonstrates the problem. STR: 1. Map JspServlet to /jsp/* 2. Create a directory /jsp/dir 3. Make a request to /jsp/dir Result: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: File "/jsp/dir" not found org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:56) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:410) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:117) org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspUtil.getInputStream(JspUtil.java:679) org.apache.jasper.xmlparser.XMLEncodingDetector.getEncoding(XMLEncodingDetector.java:109) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.determineSyntaxAndEncoding(ParserController.java:337) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:190) org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parseDirectives(ParserController.java:119) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:193) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:373) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:353) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:340) org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:644) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:358) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:389) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:333) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722) Expected: 404 Not Found response
Stack trace is from Tomcat 7: changing product.
Fixed in trunk (8.0.x) and 7.0.x and will be included in 7.0.23 onwards.