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

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Thursday 14 April 2011 01:30 PM, 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.
While we are at this - in previous versions we were able to enable a 
Access valve to log the accessed URL and the return HTTP code. Is this 
possible in AS7? If yes, how and where do I enable this (just to make 
sure it is returning 404)?

-Jaikiran
>
> 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.
>