SimpleFormController. HTML action left blank. Spring creates action under WEB-INF

[Edward Winchester]

Hello,

I posted this at springsource.org but didn't get any replies. Wonder if anyone has witnessed this before?

Spring is generating an HTML form action attribute under WEB-INF. This leads to a 404 when submit it pressed. Here's a bit of background into my very small app:

I have a controller to handle login. It extends SimpleFormController:

    <bean id="agentLoginController" class="web.AgentLoginController">
        <property name="commandClass" value="model.LoginData"/>
        <property name="formView" value="agentLogin"/>
        <property name="successView" value="index.htm"/>
        <property name="validator">
            <bean class="web.LoginDataValidator"/>
        </property>
        <property name="mainServices" ref="mainServices"/>

    </bean>
 

Also have a "standard" view resolver:

    <bean id="viewResolver"
          class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
          p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
          p:suffix=".jsp" />

Here's my login form from the JSP page (note the action is not specified):

        <form:form method="post">
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <td>Username:</td>
                    <td><form:errors path="userName"/><form:input path="userName"/></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>Password:</td>
                    <td><form:errors path="password"/><form:password path="password"/></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td><input type="submit" value="Submit"></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </form:form>

I'm developing this application on 3 different computers (depending on where I am location-wise). On 2 of the computers, when the form is presented in the browser and I look at the HTML source, the HTML form tag's action attribute is "/test/agentLogin.htm". This is as I would expect.

On the 3rd computer, I get the following: "/test/WEB-INF/jsp/agentLogin.jsp". This then leads to a HTTP 404 error when submit is pressed.

If I hardcode the action attribute in the JSP to "/test/agentLogin.htm" all's fine.

Questions:

Am I being sloppy in missing out the action attribute? This page says it's not required.

Could this be a bug in Spring showing itself under certain circumstances?

Thanks,

Ed