Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

If you were to execute the getPathInfo() method given the following URL (rewritten)

http://www.myserver.com/myContext/myAction.do;jsessionid=1234567890

where myAction.do maps to a servlet, what would you think the proper response should be?

null?

How about ";jsessionid=1234567890"?

I have run across an application server that believes the latter is a correct response.

In looking at the 2.4 servlet specification, in section SRV 4.4, I see the following:


PathInfo: The part of the request path that is not part of the Context Path or
the Servlet Path. It is either null if there is no extra path, or is a string with a
leading �/�.



Which leads me to believe that a response of ";jsessionid=1234567890" violates the spec because it does not begin with the leading slash ('/').

All the app servers I have tried, except one, return null.


Comments?

Thanks.