It sounds like the servlet is trying to use PathInfo (extra
characters beyond the real servlet's name for parameters). In your web.xml
you probably want to make your URL mapping something like /servletname/* so
that every URL that starts with servletname is called for that servlet.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Wadkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: 'Tomcat Users List'
> Subject: RE: Servlet POST results in 404 error
>
>
> The servlet is an application that has numerous modes. If I
> want to create a
> new user of the app, I type the URL:
>
> servername/webapp/servletname?mode=19
>
> I enter all the details of the new user, and the servlet
> "posts" this info -
> a get would show password details in the URL. It then creates a page:
>
> servername/webapp/servletname/stringofnumbers
>
> Informing me of the outcome of the attempt to create a new user - i.e.
> success or failure. At this point it fails with a 404. The
> logs give exactly
> the same info. I've checked everything I can think of and changed the
> DocumentRoot in Apache to the webapps/webappname directory.
> No joy! As I see
> it there are two possibilities:
>
> I've misconfigured TC and/or Apache - but how?
> The servlet implements or does something that is no longer
> supported in
> TomCat and/or the latest servlet API.
>
> I'm at a loss!
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 26 February 2002 19:08
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Servlet POST results in 404 error
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 12:25 PM, John Wadkin wrote:
>
> > I'd give you the URL but I'd have to give passwords and
> > stuff... It goes
> > like this:
> >
> > servername/webapp/servletname/stringofnumbers
>
> I had some JSP pages that worked on Netscape but not Tomcat. It
> turned out that Tomcat wanted to see a "=" separating the
> name=value pairs. From your example above, it looks like you're
> just trying to pass some numbers so you don't actually need
> the "=" (informationally), but Tomcat does to pass it on through
> the request.
>
> Simply adding the "=" fixed it for me. Now, sometimes I'll add a
> label as the value, like: thedata=a_label, which is a visual
> convenience but ignored by the backend.
>
> Just my experience.
>
> Ken Martin
>
>
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