Created attachment 29575 [details]
test war file within java source

Servlet 3.0 Spec. says that


2.3.3.3 Asynchronous processing

...

In the event that an asynchronous operation times out, the container must run 
through the following steps: 
■ Invoke the AsyncListener.onTimeout method on all the AsyncListener 
instances registered with the ServletRequest on which the asynchronous 
operation was initiated. 
■ If none of the listeners called AsyncContext.complete() or any of the 
AsyncContext.dispatch methods, perform an error dispatch with a status 
code equal to HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. 
■ If no matching error page was found, or the error page did not call 
AsyncContext.complete() or any of the AsyncContext.dispatch 
methods, the container MUST call AsyncContext.complete().

(servlet-3_0-mrel-spec.pdf / pdf page 40, Spec page 18)


In other words, if there are no AsyncListeners which calls AsyncContext.complete() or any of the 
AsyncContext.dispatch, the container must perform an error dispatch with 500 error code.

But tomcat 7 does not send 500 error response. It sends 200 OK.

In org.apache.catalina.core.AsyncContextImpl.timeout(), 

                if (listenerInvoked) {
                    request.getCoyoteRequest().action(
                            ActionCode.ASYNC_IS_TIMINGOUT, result);
                    return !result.get();
                } else {
                    // No listeners, container calls complete
                    complete();
                }

it just calls complete(). So I think it must be spec violation.


I've attached the test war file within a test source.
Test URL is http://localhost:8080/asyncTimeoutTest/AsyncTimeoutTestServlet .