[OWASP-ESAPI] Problems with Swingset on Leopard

[Andrea Cogliati]

Kevin,

I was getting the error when accessing the index.jsp page. The /main  
did the trick, thanks! I'm going to experiment a little bit, then  
update the wiki with a few hints for Mac and possible Linux users.

Thanks!

Andrea

On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Fealey wrote:

> Hey Andrea,
>
> I'm guessing you are going to 127.0.0.1:8080
> Swingset is actually set up to run at 127.0.0.1:8080/main
>
> I think this will solve your problem, but if not, get back to me  
> with some more details.  When is this error displayed?  When you  
> visit the index? or a specific page? or before you go to the address?
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Andrea Cogliati  
> <andreac at dollos.it> wrote:
> I reply to my own message. The Swingset WAR on the web site has been  
> compiled with Java 6 and cannot run on Java 5 (the default Java  
> environment on Leopard): that's account for the "Bad version number  
> in .class file" in my previous message.
>
> I tried to compile Swingset myself (not very familiar with Eclipse)  
> but when I try to run it I always end up with the following error  
> message (with either Tomcat 5.5 or 6.0, Java 5 or Java 6):
>
> SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
> java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot use current request until it  
> is set with HTTPUtilities.setCurrentHTTP()
>        at  
> org 
> .owasp 
> .esapi.reference.DefaultHTTPUtilities.getCurrentRequest(Unknown  
> Source)
>        at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:60)
>        at  
> org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
>        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
>        at  
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java: 
> 342)
>        at  
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
>        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina 
> .core 
> .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 
> 290)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina 
> .core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java: 
> 233)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java: 
> 191)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache 
> .catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java: 
> 109)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java: 
> 286)
>        at  
> org 
> .apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java: 
> 845)
>        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol 
> $Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
>        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint 
> $Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
>
> Any advise?
>
> Andrea
>