Setting application App as the default application will leads to an empty context-path value when calling HttpServletRequest.getContextPath() from an url without the context-path.
Requesting site using following url in browser-bar (no /App!): /foo/bar.xhtml
will lead to following values:
HttpServletRequest.getContextPath() = ""
HttpServletRequest.getServletPath() = "/foo/bar.xhtml"
HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() = "/App/foo/bar.xhtml"
Should /App not be removed when retrieving the request-uri?
The following line of code (which is used in many so-questions) to remove the context-path from the uri won't work anymore:
request.getRequestURI().substring(request.getContextPath().length());
or should this safely be replaced with:?
request.getContextPath() + request.getServletPath()
Using mojarra 2.1.23 on Glassfish 3.1.2
Glassfish settings:
Application App - Context Root: /App
Virtual Server - default web module: App
So that I can omit /App from the URL.