Watch out, illegal Jetty URL

November 2, 2010 Evgeny Goldin Code, Java, Web, 0

Is the following URL legal?

http://host?param=value

Well, for Jetty 7.x it is not. And I couldn’t understand why before a friend of mine pointed to a missing "/":

http://host/?param=value

As it appears, if you have a ContextHandler registered to service "/" requests, as we did, Jetty rejects any of them coming without a slash with 400 "Bad request" response.

If you try to use the first URL in a browser, it will add a missing slash automatically. But Apache HttpClient isn’t that smart, unfortunately.

Watch out!

jetty, url

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