hi mike,
i observed the same thing. the reason it doesn't work is i guess as follows,
-the JSP file gets converted into a
servlet in the backend when requested for the first time and then that servlet is used to serve future requests
-the servlet name given to the JSP's generated servlet is webserver specific
-the getPathInfo() works ONLY when we access a servlet as we might assume from the following quote from servlet/jsp api,
"Returns any extra path information associated with the URL the client sent when it made this request. The extra path information follows
the servlet path but precedes the query
string. This method returns null if there was no extra path information. "
-as we DON'T access the servlet generated by the JSP we are not able to use getPathInfo() in JSP the way we do in servlets.
well, this is a limitation but we can always get around it by passing the same information as querystring or something...though that entails changing of the currently working code if we have one...
regards
maulin