[jboss-as7-dev] Missing 404 for non-existent web app context?

[jean-frederic clere]

On 04/14/2011 10:00 AM, Remy Maucherat wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 12:55 +0530, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> I was testing the lastest AS7 upstream and am noticing an issue with
>> web application context handling. Just start the server and access any
>> non-existent URL like http://localhost:8080/nonexistentapp. It just
>> renders a blank page. Shouldn't it show up a 404 error page like it
>> does in previous versions of JBoss AS?
>
> If there's nothing to map, you get a 404. Your browser then does not
> feel like it has to display the status code to you.
>
> For whatever reason, just like it is a good idea to allow users to
> package whatever JAR they think is useful in their war, it is apparently
> needed to have hardcoded HTML generation with embedded images to present
> some hello page.
>

hm that could a default ROOT.war, no?

Cheers

Jean-Frederic