decoding on getContextPath of HttpServletRequest and ServletContext

[glassfishrobot]

The first paragraph of the spec for getContextPath() method on HttpServletRequest states():

"The container does not decode this string."

The first paragraph of the corresponding method on ServletContext does not have this statement, but is otherwise semantically equivalent.

This JIRA seeks to have the statement added to ServletContext.getContextPath().

[glassfishrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented
Reported by @edburns

[glassfishrobot]

@glassfishrobot Commented
gregwilkins said:
rather than have that statement added to ServletContext.getContextPath(), there are other alternatives:

• document the different behaviour in the javadoc.
• accept that the decoding on the Request version was a cut and paste error and remove.
• accept that the decoding on the Request version was a cut and paste error and replace with "The path returned is the containers preferred encoding of the context path string", so as to limit the applications exposure to non-normalized client supplied strings.

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@glassfishrobot Commented
This issue was imported from java.net JIRA SERVLET_SPEC-163

[glassfishrobot]

• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/servlet-spec/issues/163
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @glassfishrobot

[markt-asf]

This is being addressed as part of #18.