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dispatcher.forward() is confused when using special servlet mapping URLs

           Summary: dispatcher.forward() is confused when using special
                    servlet mapping URLs
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.0.3 Final
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: andreas@schildba.ch


please have a look at the web application attached to this bug.
web.xml defines two servlet mappings:
/subdir/ reproduces the bug.
/subdir/foobar works as expected.
both map to a servlet that does a dispatcher.forward() to an html page 
(/subdir/hello.html).
both mappings should display the html page. unfortunately, the first mapping 
doesn't. apparently it searches for hello.html at some other place than 
the /subdir. notice that the mapping contains a trailing slash to make sure 
that servlet mapping is contained in the subdir.
i found no part of the servlet specification that forbids the use of just a 
directory. it also works as expected under tomcat 3.2 and 3.3.

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