I think section 10.2 in the 2.2 spec would indicate otherwise:
'A string containing only the ’/’ character indicates that servlet specified
by the mapping
becomes the "default" servlet of the application.'
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hani Suleiman
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:16 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: RE: Servlet Parameters
No i isn't a bug, the servlet spec explicitly disallows servlets from
being mapped to /
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Chuck Butkus wrote:
> I just wanted to post that I found the problem. I was using a servlet
> mapping with a url pattern of "/". For some reason the servlet parameters
> don't come through with this servlet mapping.
>
> When I changed the servlet mapping from "/" to "/servlet", everything
> worked fine.
>
> This would seem to me to be a bug in Orion. I haven't checked Bugzilla
> yet, but I will when a get a chance.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Butkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 3:59 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Servlet Parameters
>
>
> I am having a problem with servlet parameters. My servlets
> gets parameters when I put Orion in debug mode and put it
> directly under the "/orion/default-web-app/WEB-INF/classes/"
> directory, but the parameters don't come through when I put it in a
> web application.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there anything special that needs
> to go into the "web.xml" file so a servlet can accept parameters. I would
> greatly appreciate any help.
>
> Chuck Butkus
>
>
>
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