Sorry to repeat this post, but I haven't heard anything back, and this appears to be a critical bug (it sure is for me <:) )
This is operating very differently than tomcat 4 rc1 and other prior versions. ============================================== Casey Bragg - Software Engineer Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Dallas, TX 469-259-2702 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================== -----Original Message----- From: Bragg, Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help! ErrorDispatcherValve throws NullPointerException on 403 for bidden! Please help! On Tomcat 4.0.1, I'm getting an Error 500 caused by the following exception when I should get a 403 forbidden error-page. The exception : 2001-11-20 16:03:49 HttpProcessor[8080][4] process.invoke java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.status(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:291) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:462) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 64) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java :163) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:5 66) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java: 1011) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1106 ) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) 1) I added <user name="junk" password="junk1" roles="junkrole" /> to tomcat-users.xml. 2)I added the following to /examples/WEB-INF/web.xml (between servlet mapping and taglib sections) <error-page> <error-code>403</error-code> <location>/examples/jsp/forbidden.jsp</location> </error-page> 3) I added the following /examples/jsp/forbidden.jsp file <html> <body>forbidden!</body> </html> 4)I started Tomcat 4.0.1 5)I went to http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/index.jsp 6) I logged in as used junk with password junk1 7) I was sent to http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/security/protected/j_security_check The file catalina_log.2001-11-20.txt contained the exception listed above (NullPointerException). 8) I restarted tomcat, and logged in again as role1 (pwd tomcat) without difficulty. This was done on a default installation of Tomcat 4.0.1 on a Win2k box. ============================================== Casey Bragg - Software Engineer Allegiance Telecom, Inc. Dallas, TX 469-259-2702 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================== -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
