I have run into the following issue:
On IBM WebSphere 6.0,
HttpServletRequest.getPathInfo() returns:
;jsessionid=1234567890
on an URL of the form:
http://www.myserver.com/myContext/myAction.do;jsessionid=1234567890
whereas any other app server I have used returns null.
IBM documents this issue here:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?
rs=180&context=SSEQTP&q1=1205259&uid=swg21205259&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang
=en
as does this dev mailing list.
However, I am wondering if WebSphere 6.0 is correct in it's
behavior. It seems like it does not follow the 2.4 Servlet
Specification.
Section SRV 4.4:
• PathInfo: The part of the request path that is not part of the
Context Path or
the Servlet Path. It is either null if there is no extra path, or is
a string with a
leading ‘/’.
It seems to me that WS 6.0 should behave like other app servers and
return null in this case otherwise it is violating the leading slash
('/') rule.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
