Page load failures when input path is too long?

[Ted Smyth]

Hey all,

I've recently discovered a strange issue in a web app I maintain. In my struts-config.xml (Struts 1.2.9, J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.5.0_11), I have changed an <action> declaration from:

<action path="/searchuser" type="ca.gc.psc.sless.struts.SearchUserAction" name="searchUserForm" scope="session" input="/searchuser.jsp">

to a new bilingual requirement:

<action path="/searchuser-chercheusager" type="ca.gc.psc.sless.struts.SearchUserAction" name="searchUserForm" scope="session" input="/searchuser.jsp">

I've changed the appropriate site links to this new path, as well as relevant <html:form> tags on the corresponding jsp. Yet, the page fails to load (loads a blank one) when trying to access the new path.

I can shorten the path to say... path="/searchuser-chercheusa" and fix all the links/tags again, and the page will load successfully.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue? I have other paths in the system that are much longer but load just fine. I don't see any error output in my server logs, but I'll crank up the logging granularity and see if I can find anything.

Cheers,
[ September 29, 2008: Message edited by: Ted Smyth ]

[Ted Smyth]

I suppose I should mention I'm running weblogic 9.2, maintenance pack 3, just in case.