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Servlet Bug? - getPathInfo() on HttpServletRequest

From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:27:35 PDT

Guys,
     In glassfish V2, i have this code to get path info & query string in my servlet-

String querystring =request.getQueryString();
String pathinfo =request.getPathInfo();
             
request is the HttpServletRequest.

If there is NO pathinfo & querystring in my request to this servlet, i get
[1] null for querystring as explained in the javadoc.

but,
[2]I get "/" for pathinfo.
Here also javadoc says that null but glassfish returns this "/" character.

Can someone shed some light here?

Thanks,
-Uday.
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