Request with URL ending with "/" not routed through default servlet

Question

I have deployed a web application that has a controller servlet. This
servlet is configured (via web.xml) to be the default servlet with a servlet
mapping defined with url-pattern set to "/".
Requests for URLs such as "my.host/my/path" are correctly routed to the
controller servlet, whereas a request to "my.host/my/" is not - it causes a 404
to be returned immediately by the container.
Any help appreciated
Peter

Answer 1

There's not enough data in your post to answer the question directly. Posting an example URL would help a lot.
The chances are that the problem lies in the URL - it might contain some characters that are not directly usable in the shell and are therefore getting munged when you use them in 'do shell script'. There are ways around this, but posting an example URL would go a long way to telling if that's the problem or not.
It is also possible that the web site is configured to block specific user agents such as curl or wget (in a vain attempt to block automated downloads of the content) but, again, it's hard to say without knowing a specific URL.
If this is the case, you could use curl's -A switch to specify a different 'User-Agent' and fake out the server. For example, to pretend you're using Safari, use something like:
do shell script "curl -O -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.12+ (KHTML, like Gecko)' " & fullWeb
(note the single quotes around the User-Agent string)