[WW-2874] Dispatcher logs an error / severe from serviceAction() before it returns a 404 "Could not find action or result"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.3

Environment

Tomcat 6.0.18, Struts 2.1.2

• Assignee: Nils-Helge Garli
• Reporter: Lucas Nelson
• Created: 17/Nov/08 22:48
• Updated: 12/Jun/13 12:47
• Resolved: 21/Dec/08 20:06

Description

We are getting severe logs from org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.serviceAction() (line 485) when broken spiders hit our site with all-lowercase URLs. Our actions are named with the usual camel-hump style naming, so the server is returning a 404 to the client. This is all good.

But, just before it returns the 404, the Dispatcher logs at error level: "Could not find action or result".

We are trying to get to the situation where we can have all severe / error logs trigger an alert to wake someone up in the middle of the night to go look at the system. Having client-initiated activity triggering logging at severe / error level does not seem right.

Any chance this log at line 485 could be lowered to a warning, at least?

Issue Links

• is related to: WW-4103 When an action is not found an error which cannot be silenced is logged when not in dev mode