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

[Andrig Miller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Remy Maucherat" <rmaucher at redhat.com>
> To: jboss-as7-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:00:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Missing 404 for non-existent web app context?
> 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.

I saw the same thing, and I used Wireshark to see if a 404 was coming back from AS 7, and it always does.  So, the blank page is caused by the browser.

Andy

> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Remy Maucherat <rmaucher at redhat.com>
> Red Hat Inc
> 
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