DO NOT REPLY [Bug 9430] New: - getResource() doesn't return null for invalid URLs

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getResource() doesn't return null for invalid URLs

           Summary: getResource() doesn't return null for invalid URLs
           Product: Tomcat 3
           Version: 3.2.3 Final
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Servlet
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: jeff@socialchange.net.au


Hi,

>From the Servlet 2.2 javax.servlet.ServletContext javadocs, method:

public java.net.URL getResource(java.lang.String path):

"This method returns null if no resource is mapped to the pathname."

Yet it clearly doesn't, as this JSP demonstrates:

<%= config.getServletContext().getResource("/some/nonexistent/path") %>

This bug is fixed in 3.3.1rc1 and 4.0.1 (at least), but I thought I'd just
record this bug for future generations.


--Jeff

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