JSP served out as plain/text with source code

**jrh3k5** · May 22nd, 2011, 11:24 AM

I have a JSP:

Code:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>wtf</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h2>Hello World!</h2>
        <c:set var="membersUrl">
            <c:url value="members" />
        </c:set>
        <a href="${membersUrl}">Members</a>
    </body>
</html>

If I remove the DispatcherServlet (and, thus, the view resolver), it renders correctly. However, if I use the view resolver, I get:

Code:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>wtf</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h2>Hello World!</h2>
        <c:set var="membersUrl">
            <c:url value="members" />
        </c:set>
        <a href="${membersUrl}">Members</a>
    </body>
</html>

The content type is set to plain/text and, even more oddly, the title of the page is "wtf" (indicating that the browser somehow read the title of the page).

For reference, here's my serlvet configuration:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.googlecode.ticktokk.mvc" />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    <mvc:default-servlet-handler />
    <mvc:view-controller path="/login" view-name="login/index" />
    
    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

</beans>

...and here's my web.xml:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <display-name>TickTokk</display-name>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext-*.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>ticktokk</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ticktokk</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

**dr_pompeii** · May 22nd, 2011, 03:03 PM

Hello

Wich Spring Version you are using?
Same question about the web container (Tomcat?, jetty?)

Try cleaning and re building your application

**jrh3k5** · May 22nd, 2011, 03:12 PM

I'm using Spring 3.0.5.RELEASE (with Spring Security of the same version, if that's in any way relevant). I'm using Tomcat 6.0.26 through Eclipse WTP and jetty-maven-plugin 8.0.0.M2. Many Project > Clean and mvn clean invocations tried, to no avail. Interestingly, the output is a little different on Jetty:

Code:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
Hello World!

Members

("Members" is a link to "/${membersUrl}", and the "Hello World!" is properly rendered in <h2 /> tags)

[ Edit: it's worth noting that, if I remove the taglib declaration (and the corresponding <c:* /> elements), it renders correctly. ]

**rbeltran** · Jul 17th, 2012, 12:20 PM

I'm having a similar issue. Anyone figure this one out?

**rbeltran** · Jul 17th, 2012, 04:29 PM

I'm using spring 3 and hibernate 4 and I found my issue with the jsp code and html code displaying raw in tomcat 7. In my web.xml I set the servlet as:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I took the * off so it was just

<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherSe rvlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

and that fixed my issue. My models even display properly now. Ahhhh so nice.

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