CLONE -getContextRoot() returns forward slash rather than empty string for apps
deployed to root context
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Key: GERONIMO-5216
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5216
Project: Geronimo
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Components: Tomcat
Affects Versions: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2
Reporter: Matthias Koch
Assignee: Jay D. McHugh
Fix For: 2.0.3, 2.1.1, 2.2
An app deployed to the root context should have "" returned by getContextRoot()
- On Tomcat, we are returning "/".
dcherk wrote:
> I am deploying my war file into the root context with the following
> deployment plan:
> ----------
> <web-app xmlns="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/j2ee/web-2.0";
> xmlns:dep="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/deployment-1.2";
> xmlns:naming="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/naming-1.2";
> xmlns:security="http://geronimo.apache.org/xml/ns/security-1.2";>
> ...
> <context-root></context-root>
> ...
> </web-app>
> ----------
>
> The application starts up properly, and responds on http://localhost, as
> expected.
>
> However, when I examine request.getContextPath(), I get a forward slash:
> "/".
>
> This is incorrect, as far as I can tell. According to the API
> (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.html#getContextPath()):
> ----------
> For servlets in the default (root) context, this method
> [HttpServletRequest.html.getContextPath()] returns "".
> ----------
>
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