Yes, I've found this to be true in 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 also. I've ask around and
no-one seems to be willing to look into fixing it in the distribution.
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Szymanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 8:46 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PATCH] Tomcat 3.2.1 Admin Context
> Hello *,
>
> i have found an error in the admin context of tomcat 3.2.3 and hopefully
> corrected it.
>
> You can not use the function "view all contexts" because this
> functionality throws an error.
>
> The problem is that the method "public final static String
> URLDecode(String str)" in the class org.apache.tomcat.util.RequestUtil
> can't decode a string that contains the char "/".
>
> But it is used in the class "ContextAdmin" of the admin context of tomcat
> 3 to decode the value of the property "work dir" from a context (line 122
> of the file "ContextAdmin.java"). This throws an exception, because of the
> reason this property is an directory path it certainly has "/" in it.
>
> I have exchanged the line 76:
> v.addElement("WORK DIR: " +
> RequestUtil.URLDecode(context.getWorkDir().getName()));
> with
> v.addElement("WORK DIR: " +
> java.net.URLDecoder.decode(context.getWorkDir().getName()));
>
> and the line 92
> v.addElement("ATTRIBUTE: " +
> RequestUtil.URLDecode(context.getAttribute(key).toString()));
> with
> v.addElement("ATTRIBUTE: " +
> java.net.URLDecoder.decode(context.getAttribute(key).toString()));
>
> and everything's working fine.
>
>
>
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