https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54198
--- Comment #2 from Michael Osipov <1983-01...@gmx.net> --- (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > sendError(int) methods calls sendError(int, null) internally. Thus > > generating a HTML > > page without a message. This is not mentioned in the docs. One could assume > > that the response will be empty. > > The sendError() method behaviour is defined by several chapters of the > Servlet specification. In "Servlet 3.0 Rev a": > > a) ch.5.3 Convenience Methods > b) ch.10.9 Error Handling > > It does not matter much which of sendError(..) methods is called. > > > seems to be a verbatim copy of Oracle's Servlet API > > It is the other way around. The origin is in the old times when Tomcat was > the reference implementation. Tomcat Javadocs were maintained as the > official ones at that time. Well, this does not mean that we cannot improve the doc for sendError(int). I dont think that one has to read the spec to understand what a method really does. That's the purpose of JavaDoc actually, at least to me. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
