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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:12:31 +0200
From: Remy Maucherat <remm@jboss.org>
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Subject: Re: Tomcat 5.0.12, Windows, and file pathnames
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Derek Mahar wrote:

> Is it the responsibility of Tomcat, the application running on Tomcat,
> or Java to translate or resolve Windows file paths?  
> If it is Tomcat, does Tomcat 5.0.12 translate or resolve these pathnames
> correctly?  VQWiki (http://www.croninsolutions.com/veryquickwiki/), a
> JSP Wiki engine, when run on Tomcat 5.0.9 on Linux, works as expected.
> However, on Tomcat 5.0.12 on Windows XP, VQWiki is unable to find and
> save its property file, even though this file exists and is both
> readable and writable.  VQWiki generates the following report page:
> 
> The error had the following
> message:C:\Program%20Files\Apache%20Software%20Foundation\Tomcat%205.0\w
> ebapps\vqwiki\WEB-INF\classes\vqwiki.properties (The system cannot find
> the path specified)

The only way you can get a properly URL encoded URL is when you call 
getResource on the classloader. If you do a diff, you'll see there's no 
relevant changes that have been made to the classloader between 5.0.9 
and 5.0.12.
The most likely cause is that you don't have spaces in your Tomcat path 
on Linux, but you do on Windows.

Note: The URL encoding of those paths is a "feature" which could be 
removed (it is supposed to fix problems with RMI).

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