[SLING-722] NullPotinerException trying to authenticate when requesting the SlingMainServlet directly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Engine 2.0.2
• Fix Version/s: Engine 2.0.4
• Component/s: Engine
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 05/Nov/08 22:16
• Updated: 04/Apr/14 14:19
• Resolved: 05/Nov/08 22:17

Description

Consider the SlingServlet being registered in a servlet container as /somepath and it being called as http://host/somepath, the HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo() will return null and thus the SlingAuthenticator.getAuthenticationInfo method will throw a NullPointerException.

In case of only addressing the Sling servlet, the SlingAuthenticator should assume the / to select the authenticator.

Issue Links

• relates to: SLING-2998 SlingAuthenticator fails because of pathInfo being null
• relates to: SLING-3492 failed authentication when Sling is deployed in an app server