Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing
| Summary: | Need to support servlet mapping to "" | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [RT] Jetty | Reporter: | Jan Bartel <janb> |
| Component: | server | Assignee: | Jan Bartel <janb> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | gregw, jetty-inbox |
| Version: | 8.1.0.RC0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 7.5.x | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
Fixed for 8.1.0.RC4 |
From servlet spec 3, section 12.2: The empty string ("") is a special URL pattern that exactly maps to the application's context root, i.e., requests of the form http://host:port/<context- root>/. In this case the path info is ’/’ and the servlet path and context path is empty string (““).