[TAPESTRY-1343] Under Tomcat, a root path URL such as http://.../context (without a trailing slash) causes a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException inside PageRenderDispatcher

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.3
• Environment: linux, tomcat4 ("connected" to apache1.3 via modjk), java 1.5
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Robert Zeigler
• Created: 12/Mar/07 14:52
• Updated: 13/Mar/07 16:33
• Resolved: 13/Mar/07 16:10

Description

PageRenderDispatcher.dispatch assumes that request.getPath() will always return at least "/". However, it is possible with tomcat for getPath() to return an empty string.
http://www.foo.com/context will return an empty string in tomcat (not in jetty).