NUL is about the only case-sensitive one in NT/W2K.
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From: "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: KPMG-2002003: Bea Weblogic DOS-device Denial of Service


> > > A quick test of Tomcat 4.0.1 returned a blank page
> > > without hanging.
> >
> > I just tried, and the HEAD returned a 404 page for /aux.jsp or /AUX.jsp
(I
> > didn't get a blank page; is that what I was supposed to test ?). I
> supppose
> > the filesystem abstraction prevented the DoS bug.
>
> After more testing, it appears nul behaves in a special way (I have no
idea
> why).
> /NUL.jsp appears to return a 200 with a content length of 0 (that's a
blank
> page)
> /nul.jsp returns a 500 (Jasper trying to load a non existing class)
>
> In neither cases Tomcat did hang of did it kill one of the processing
> threads. All the other device names I tried (aux and AUX, COM1, LPT1, CON)
> returned a 404.
> Any ideas why nul is different ?
>
> Remy
>
>
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