Specifying an HTML file as the <location> of an <error-page>
causes tomcat to go into a loop of webpage requests, until 
it hits a StackOverflowError.

This problem doesn't occur if you specify a jsp page instead
of an HTML file.



java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at java.io.FileNotFoundException.(FileNotFoundException.java:62)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:64)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:95)
        at org.apache.tomcat.request.FileHandler.doService(StaticInterceptor.java:365)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.handleStatus(ContextManager.java:1049)
        at org.apache.tomcat.request.FileHandler.doService(StaticInterceptor.java:387)

repeat last 4 lines many, many times.

tomcat prints this to console many times before throwing this error:

2000-12-06 05:11:16 - Ctx( /Greeting ): 404 R( /Greeting + /index.htm + null) null

but nothing occurs in the error logs....