Hi,
I have two problems with Tomcat 4.0 which might be caused by bugs:
All the JSP pages in my project are named "index.jsp", and they are
spread in different directories of the wepapp. All links of the
application only reference the directories, and since index.jsp is in
the welcome-file list, it is executed, i.e. I have a file
/news/index.jsp and link it as /news/.
(I link directories instead of the files directly because 1. the user
does not need to see I'm using JSP and 2. I can replace static
index.html files with dynamic jsp's and vice versa, without changing any
of the links.)
The problem is that Tomcat seems to send a redirect to the user's
browser to load the index.jsp page, and thereby drops all request
parameters in the URL!
I think this is not how it's supposed to work. /news/?id=5 should return
the result of /news/index.jsp?id=5.
The other problem is with a servlet in that application (which also
works well on Resin), that serves binary data from a database. What it
does is setting the correct content-type (i.e. image/jpeg) and then
copying the BLOB data to the ServletOutputStream.
It seems Tomcat prepends the data with the following lines:
--- snip ---
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:52:56 GMT
Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0-b1 (HTTP/1.1 Connector)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
400
--- snap ---
That way the image data gets corrupted. Isn't this information supposed
to be in the HTTP Headers, and not in my output?
Please help! Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Stefan Schmidt
