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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 33095] New: - Symbolic links in webapp not working as expected

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           Summary: Symbolic links in webapp not working as expected
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.5.4
          Platform: Sun
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: balbir.sanghera@ntlworld.com


When entering a directory that has symbolic links get the following exception
(with and without allowLinking enabled).  Can fix this by checking 
childCacheEntry.attributes for null, but the links are not followed when
clicked. Have tried this only on Solaris (sparc) and Linux (x86), get the same
results.


server.xml:
      <DefaultContext allowLinking="true"
                      caseSensitive="true"
                      crossContext="true"
                      reloadable="true"/>



SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet default threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.renderHtml(DefaultServlet.java:1324)
        at
org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.render(DefaultServlet.java:1081)
        at
org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.serveResource(DefaultServlet.java:786)
        at
org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.doGet(DefaultServlet.java:323)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:526)
        at
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn.invoke(SingleSignOn.java:365)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:825)
        at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:731)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:526)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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