at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:366) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398) at org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig.tldScanResourcePaths(TldConfig.java:398) (... repeats a lot of times) Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a file named "\" below WEB-INF in an own folder 2) Start Tomcat7
For the record a similar issues exists in Tomcat 8. I'll take a look...
Thanks for the report. This has been fixed in 7.0.x and 8.0.x and will be included in 7.0.54 and 8.0.6 onwards.