Re: Struts ServletDispatcherResult Forwarding GET Instead of FORWARD

I noticed the following issue while debugging:

StrutsRequestWrapper  is missing request attribute
"jakarta.servlet.forward.request_uri"

Then, tomcat "org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher"
doForward method fails to find that attribute in the following line:

if (hrequest.getAttribute(FORWARD_REQUEST_URI) == null) {
     // then tomcat defaults to setting value of various request attributes
}

And after that, tomcat calls "processRequest(request, response,
state);" in the same instance "ApplicationDispatcher" and fails to
resolve a FORWARD dispatcher type below.  Instead, it resolves a
REQUEST.  And when tomcat sees REQUEST dispatcher type it does a GET
on the JSP, instead of FORWARD.

Question:  Should StrutsRequestWrapper add the
""jakarta.servlet.forward.request_uri"" attribute?

FYI, I found the below very old thread in apache mail archive which
was posted to [email protected] in 2003 which appears to be a
related issue:
[PATCH] RequestDispatcher.forward() problem with wrapped requests

https://lists.apache.org/thread/b3s6gwp1305wh485crkfozz9j9llvj21


On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 12:22 PM Rubens Gomes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As per Spring Boot "3.3.2" managed dependency coordinates the embedded
> tomcat version is "10.1.26"
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM Łukasz Lenart <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Tomcat? version? It can be related to Tomcat changes
> >
> > pon., 22 lip 2024 o 17:25 Rubens Gomes <[email protected]> napisał(a):
> > >
> > > I am running Struts 7.0.0-M9 along with Spring Boot 3.3.2 + Spring Security.
> > >
> > >  have a Struts Action class annotated with :
> > >
> > > @Result(
> > >     name = Action.INPUT,
> > >     location = "/WEB-INF/content/%{#request.device}/login.jsp",
> > >     type = "dispatcher")
> > >
> > >
> > > And I have noticed that after returning from the Action class
> > > (ViewLoginAction.java) the framework is invoking the above JSP using a
> > > DispatcherType.GET instead of DisplatcherType.FORWARD.
> > >
> > > Is there anything wrong with Struts 7.0.0-M9?
> > >
> > > Here is a portion of logs:
> > >
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.160-05:00 TRACE 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] c.e.web.struts2.action.ViewLoginAction   : exiting
> > > execute method
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.162-05:00 DEBUG 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] com.opensymphony.xwork2.ObjectFactory    : Injecting
> > > internal beans into [ServletDispatcherResult]
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.181-05:00 DEBUG 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] o.apache.struts2.url.StrutsUrlDecoder    : Using
> > > default encoding: UTF-8
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.182-05:00 DEBUG 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] o.a.s.result.ServletDispatcherResult     :
> > > Forwarding to location: /WEB-INF/content/desktop/login.jsp
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.184-05:00 DEBUG 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] c.o.x.c.impl.InstantiatingNullHandler    : Entering
> > > nullPropertyValue
> > > [target=[com.ezlista.web.struts2.action.ViewLoginAction@217b4d13,
> > > com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultTextProvider@9dff4e1], property=struts]
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.186-05:00 TRACE 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] o.s.security.web.FilterChainProxy        : Trying to
> > > match request against DefaultSecurityFilterChain [RequestMatcher=any
> > > request, Filters=[org.springframework.security.web.session.DisableEncodeUrlFilter@68b7a5ee,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.context.request.async.WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter@469df52b,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextHolderFilter@2ef6b51,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.header.HeaderWriterFilter@64619b93,
> > > org.springframework.web.filter.CorsFilter@e9cdad7,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.csrf.CsrfFilter@66b5be95,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.authentication.logout.LogoutFilter@693b32a4,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter@2cf87853,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.savedrequest.RequestCacheAwareFilter@3664a61e,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter@7e8a3d1f,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.RememberMeAuthenticationFilter@3e2af682,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationFilter@32e489c4,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter@16aade61,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter@6ab8c3c6,
> > > org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.AuthorizationFilter@4c030249]]
> > > (1/1)
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.186-05:00 DEBUG 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] o.s.security.web.FilterChainProxy        : Securing
> > > GET /WEB-INF/content/desktop/login.jsp
> > > 2024-07-22T09:42:03.186-05:00 TRACE 17749 --- [EZLista]
> > > [0.1-8809-exec-3] o.s.security.web.FilterChainProxy        : Invoking
> > > DisableEncodeUrlFilter (1/15)
> >
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