| Summary: | Incorrectly accept many url-pattern on a single servlet-mapping in web.xml | ||
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| Product: | Tomcat 5 | Reporter: | Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe> |
| Component: | Unknown | Assignee: | Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 5.5.26 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
1. Tomcat 5.5 implements Servlet Specification 2.4 [1] The syntax you tried to use was introduced in 2.5. 2. Tomcat 5.5 is near its end of life. New features won't be implemented. 3. Tomcat 7 does validation of web.xml against schema if you enable STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE mode. [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html Hi Konstantin, thanks for your quick reply. I am unsure about the reason for marking it RESOLVED and INVALID, since I think the problem is still there. Let's recap what you wrote: > 1. Tomcat 5.5 implements Servlet Specification 2.4 [1] > The syntax you tried to use was introduced in 2.5. Ok, this is what I already wrote in my report. > 2. Tomcat 5.5 is near its end of life. New features won't be implemented. This is something new for me. Is there any date for ending support on tomcat 5.5? Is a bugfix really cataloged as "new feature"? > 3. Tomcat 7 does validation of web.xml against schema if you enable > STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE mode. I don't need web.xml validation, and I am not using tomcat7. So this is useless. If you really think this is a minor bug and do not want to fix it because tomcat 5.5 is not end of life, just mark it as VERIFIED and WONTFIX. Thanks, Giuseppe (In reply to comment #2) > > 2. Tomcat 5.5 is near its end of life. New features won't be implemented. > > This is something new for me. Is there any date for ending support on tomcat > 5.5? It is mentioned in many places. Direct link: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-55-eol.html > Is a bugfix really cataloged as "new feature"? If you deploy a broken web application, the behaviour might be undefined. |
Dear tomcat developers, I need to map the same servlet on two different url. I used netbeans 7.0.1 for managing my whole project, so I used its friendly interface to modify the web.xml file. What netbeans created is this: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>fred</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> <url-pattern>/url</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> This is read by tomcat 5.5 without emitting any error, but only the second pattern works, while the first one is ignored. Googling I found that the right way for tomcat 5.5 is this one: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>fred</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>fred</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/url</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> And this seems to be right way because tomcat 5.5 is bound to Servlet 2.4. Spec for Servlet 2.5, on note SRV.19.0.3 titled «Multiple Occurrences of Servlet Mappings», says: Previous versions of the servlet schema allows only a single url-pattern or servlet name per servlet mapping. For servlets mapped to multiple URLs this results in needless repetition of whole mapping clauses. So, I think tomcat 5.5 should emit an error for this broken web.xml file. Thanks, Giuseppe