HTTPServletRequest.getServerName() question

["Koes, Derrick" <De...@smith-nephew.com>]

The servlet 2.3 spec simply states that, "Returns the host name of the
server that received the request."

 

If I'm running tomcat on a windows machine which is not networked (no DNS),
but is in a workgroup, this call returns an empty string in tomcat.

 

I know tomcat documentation states, "The Host element represents a virtual
host, which is an association of a network name for a server (such as
"www.mycompany.com" with the particular server on which Catalina is running.
In order to be effective, this name must be registered in the Domain Name
Service (DNS) server that manages the Internet domain you belong to -
contact your Network Administrator for more information."

 

1.	Is my problem directly traced to tomcat because of the "In order to
be effective..." statement?
2.	Is tomcat not in accordance with the servlet spec?

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