Possible regression in "redirect" views between Spring 3.0.2 and Spring 3.0.4 [SPR-7532]

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Grant Gochnauer opened SPR-7532 and commented

In Spring 3.0.2, our MVC controllers returned a redirect view via the XML definition as follows:

<property name="redeemedView" value="redirect: /promo/us/avivaSkinsRedeemed.htm"/>

The redirect included the context path of the application: "promo". However in Spring 3.0.4, we've found that we've had to go through and change all the redirects to exclude the context path. So now our redirect looks like:

<property name="redeemedView" value="redirect:/us/avivaSkinsRedeemed.htm"/>

So we had to remove the context path from the redirect. Is it correct that we'd normally want to include a context path when issuing a redirect call?

Thank you!

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Affects: 3.0.4

Issue Links:

• Problem with URL encoding in org.springframework.web.servlet.view.RedirectView.RedirectView(String url) [SPR-7490] #12148 Problem with URL encoding in org.springframework.web.servlet.view.RedirectView.RedirectView(String url)

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Juergen Hoeller commented

I suspect that this has something to do with the 3.0.4 changes in RedirectView which recently got reverted to the 3.0.3 version as part of #12148. There were no other changes in RedirectView since 3.0 RC1, so I can't imagine any other reason. If you could give a recent 3.0.5 snapshot a try and check whether the problem remains there, that would be great!

A special note: It looks like the only reason why it did work for you with 3.0.2 is that your path starts with " /" instead of "/". "redirect:" URLs are defined to be context-relative by default, unless your ViewResolver is configured with "redirectContextRelative"="false". However, there is a getUrl().startsWith("/") check, so the prepended blank in your URLs might have been a workaround for that - and it's likely that 3.0.4 accidentally broke that workaround. It's probably better to configure this at the ViewResolver level, even if 3.0.5 allows for the workaround again...

Juergen

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Grant Gochnauer commented

Hi Juergen,

Where can I find the latest nightly snapshot? Normally I've used:
http://static.springsource.org/downloads/nightly/snapshot-download.php?project=SPR

but it appears it has stopped updating.

Thanks in advance,
Grant