A JSP page (that is using the default "*.jsp" mapping) can't have PathInfo
(section 10.1 of the 2.2 spec, or 11.1 of the 2.3 spec). If PathInfo ==
null, then IMHO, then Tomcat "cannot determine a valid file path", and so
must return null from getPathTranslated (section 5.5, resp section 4.5).
ServletContext.getRealPath("/") should give the file-system path to the
context (although it will also return null under 4.x if you are using war
files of course).
Of course, if the JSP page is defined in the web.xml as a prefix-mapped
servlet, then getPathTranslated and getPathInfo should work as expected.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anand Bashyam Narasimham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Dev Mailing List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: getPathInfo problem
> Hi,
>
> I know there's been a lot of discussion around this and the bug filed says
> it's a "WORKSFORME" but somehow if I just install TOmcat3.3 and run the
> Snoop JSP in the example I get a "null" on getPathInfo as well as
> getPathTranslated(). Is there something that needs to be set on the
servlet
> mapping etc.
>
> If some on can give a concrete answer as to why this is so much a problem
it
> would be of great help. I tried a JSP with calls to getPathInfo() and
> getPathTranslated() on WebLogic 5.1 and the getPathTranslated works fine
but
> returns null in Tomcat.
>
> Anand
>
>
>
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