Tomcat returns HTTP status of 200 when HttpServletResponse.sendError() called.

[Nathan Potter]

Greetings,
In tomcat 6.x (6.0.14 in my case) I am seeing the following behavior:

If I designate default error pages in my web.xml file:

    <error-page>
        <error-code>404</error-code>
        <location>/docs/error404.html</location>
    </error-page>

Then when I call HttpServletResponse.sendError():

public class DispatchServlet extends HttpServlet {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
                      HttpServletResponse response) {
        response.sendError(404);
    }
}

Tomcat returns the designated page, but with an HTTP status of 200.

If I drop the default page then I get the canned response with an HTTP  
status of 404.

Is that correct?

Seems like it shouldn't work that way to me, but then that's why I'm  
here, looking for some insight.


Nathan



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