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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2011/04/26 07:58:28 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 51117] New: stopped deployment or virtual host reply with error 503

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51117

           Summary: stopped deployment or virtual host reply with error
                    503
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.5.32
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: dev@tomcat.apache.org
        ReportedBy: akostadinov@gmail.com


When a deployment or a virtual host is stopped in tomcat5, an access attempt is
replied to with:
HTTP Status 503 - This application is not currently available

Wouldn't 404 be better?

{quote}
The Http 500 category are server side errors. If a context or host isn't found,
it's a client error. Internally, there is no way to tell if the context exists
once it's been undeployed/stopped. The server, if the URL is syntactically
correct and lacking internal resources/configuration to do anything else,
should respond with HTTP404 (SC_NOT_FOUND).
{quote}

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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 51117] stopped deployment or virtual host reply with error 503

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51117

Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #1 from Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com> 2011-04-26 03:47:55 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> When a deployment or a virtual host is stopped in tomcat5, an access attempt is
> replied to with:
> HTTP Status 503 - This application is not currently available
> 
> Wouldn't 404 be better?

It is a matter of preference. 503 is some specific response status code
officially defined in RFC 2616. This is not an error to return 503 there.

Changing Severity and closing as WONTFIX, because this behaviour in Tomcat 5.5
will not be changed.

If I remember correctly, Tomcat 6 already replies with 404 when webapps are
stopped, thus this issues is "fixed" there.

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