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BugRat Report #101 has been filed.

Bug report #101 has just been filed.

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REPORT #101 Details.

Project: Catalina
Category: Feature Requests
SubCategory: Enhancement
Class: swbug
State: received
Priority: high
Severity: serious
Confidence: public
Environment: 
   Release: current toplevel CVS
   JVM Release: 1.2
   Operating System: Solaris
   OS Release: 2.7
   Platform: Sparc

Synopsis: 
check for context==null in getSession()

Description:
Please add the following code to getSession(boolean create)

in org.apache.tomcat.connector.HttpRequestBase

	if(context == null)
	    return null;

after the ( session != null ) tests.

Reason:

I don't know why (seems to be a bug somewhere in catalina) but sometimes context is null in getSession and a null pointer exception is thrown. Unfortunatly an unhandled null pointer exception can sometimes results in a hard crash of the java executable when java is use together with JNI shared libs in some environments ( eg. my current servlet and jsp and shared lib setup on solaris :-( ).