Spring @RequestMethod Double Slashes

Ran into a painful issue with Spring-3.0.5's @RequestMethod not handling double slashes. It absorbs single slashes in urls as well!

package com.jostens.spring3template.web;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

/**
 * Test of spring's handling of double slashes
 * 
 * @see http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/8354/what-does-the-double-slash-mean-in-urls
 */
@Controller
public class SlashTestController {
 @RequestMapping(value = "/productDetail/{param1}/{param2}/{param3}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
 @ResponseBody
 public String slashTest1(HttpServletRequest request,
   @PathVariable String param1, @PathVariable String param2,
   @PathVariable String param3) throws Exception {
  return "slashTest1\n"
   + request.getServletPath() + "\n"
   + "param1[" + param1 + "]\n" + "param2[" + param2 + "]\n" + "param3[" + param3 + "]\n";
 }

 @RequestMapping(value = "/productDetail/{param1}//{param3}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
 @ResponseBody
 public String slashTest2(HttpServletRequest request,
   @PathVariable String param1, @PathVariable String param3)
   throws Exception {
  String param2 = "-";
  return "slashTest2\n"
   + request.getServletPath() + "\n"
   + "param1[" + param1 + "]\n" + "param2[" + param2 + "]\n" + "param3[" + param3 + "]\n";
 }

 @RequestMapping(value = "/productDetail/{param1}/{param2}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
 @ResponseBody
 public String slashTest3(HttpServletRequest request,
   @PathVariable String param1, @PathVariable String param2)
   throws Exception {
  return "slashTest3\n"
   + request.getServletPath() + "\n"
   + "param1[" + param1 + "]\n" + "param2[" + param2 + "]\n";
 }
}

Logged as SPR-11220 RequestMapping maps double-slashes to single slashes.

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ht["description"] = $("meta[name=description]").attr("content").trim();
ht["keywords"] = $("meta[name=keywords]").attr("content").trim();

var hs=[];
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  ta=[];
  $(hs[i]).each(function() {
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Wicked

For Quincy's birthday, we went to Wicked at the Orpheum in Minneapolis, MN. It is based on the book, Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. I liked the neon and steampunk like set. It reminded me of a Russian Constructivism play I saw once in Minneapolis with exposed mechanisms as part of the backdrop.

Photos from Jenn Gambatese's site. Purse??? Videos:

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Dancing through life - what I like to call the Mentos song

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More Jenn Gambatese from all shook up

Enhance

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Lambeau Field Getting Painted

Time-elapsed video here.

Banff world tour

Saw this interesting exploration video about the Banff film festival at the Midwest Mountaineering Adventure Expo site.

North Face: skiing in Kyrgystan

MongoDB for Java Week Two

One of the students, Daniel Hodgin, created this Cheat sheet for the mongo command line.

Syllabus

Suggestion from in the forum: Create a MONGODB_HOME environment variable and place it in the CLASSPATH and PATH: %MONGODB_HOME%/bin.

Vista open cmd window here

I used to use the WindowsXP Power tool to get this, I never realized this is the procedure for how you do the same in Vista.

Tchaikovsky Storm vs. Tempest

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The Tempest

The Tempest - animation

Thievery Corporation

Take my soul

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Free online courses

Here are the courses I signed up for this fall:

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  Notes:

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  • SparkJava
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  • Mongo command line commands

    db.createCollection("hello")
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  • echo cat
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No sound at startup of each video on youtube

Irritating, if you're trying to watch video courses. It's been there a week?

Shokunin

Jiro Dreams of Sushi an excellent documentary. Jiro has a small restaurant in terms of size but it focuses on quality not quantity. Interesting to see their apprenticeship. Chefs practice for ten years. Every ingredient is scrutinized, tested. Some meats require lengthy marinating or massaging. From the rolls to the rice, there is an art to how each portion of the meal is prepared. Much like manufacturing process, they scrutinize their portions and ratios. From the purchase of the fish from the market, to the preparation, and eventually the display, QA/QC is very important to the entire process. They continuously improve upon their methods. Even though they thought everything that could be done had been done after WWII, Jiro was still creating new dishes. He would wake from dreaming with a new idea, which is when you try to

Android Maps Setup

Some notes from today

1. Maps
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SEO Research

SEO

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• The beginner's guide to SEO
• og:product
• Markup data: product
• schema.org product

Product Sites

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The Invisibles

TIL The Invisibles stars a young Richard Dawson.

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I wasn't that impressed with the Java offerings out there that I could find for the Open Graph protocol.

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• open-graph-java Empty!
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I need to investigate these, could they have some shareable libraries?

• neo4j
• reco4j

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General nanosystems

According to this article, General Nanosystems closed July 31, 2013. Sorry to see them go, they were awesome

Milk Inc. - Walk on Water

Preston wanted the sheet music to this.

UK Version

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GeoPaddler

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I've seen some interesting map applications, but none that combine the features I sought:

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How many lights does it take to light up a roundabout

link to the truck crash last year. map of streetlights. Map to light pollution

How Did You Know (77strings)-Kurtis Mantronik pres. Chamonix

Official Video

My take 10/04/2009

Grammatically fixing songs

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• Salt 'n Pepa: Push it. Push it real well.
• Simon and Garfunkel: Havimg seen Julio and me down by the school yard.
• Van Halen: Because that's of what dreams are made.

U.S. Map if each State had the Same Population

Thievery Corporation - Live at KCRW

Spaceship links

• Evil robot games

TIL: Pergola

A Pergola would be nice in the backyard (or over a driveway).

Reading Finding Serenity

Nice collection of essays, in Finding Serenity however no mention of Starhunter yet, the series I believe Joss Whedon based a number of the concepts in Firefly upon.

ST:TNG Geordi Connections

Christy Henshaw looks like, but is not the same actress as Dr. Leah Brahms. Julie Warner plays the former, and Susan Gibney plays the latter. Though Susan Gibney didn't play Christy, she did later play a DS9 character, Erika Benteen.

Saturn V Launch Montage

TIL: Kerbal Space Program

Kerbal space program is a program that let's you simulate rockets, satellites, stations, vehicles. Interesting compared to Space MAX/ shuttle station programs of the day.

Staging analysis

Munar Footage

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Ruby/Heroku/Twilio App

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Local	Heroku
/	heroku /

References

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• Sinatra
• Haml
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• Haml and Sinatra Tutorial

Two Problems

From Jeff B at work:

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In brain games, they introduce Apollo Robbins as a Deception Specialist.

Studio C

Blind date

Thesis Defense

This is water

Sillof's Star Wars Steampunk

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Great article summarizing the status quo for media query workarounds for IE.

As is typical in the web, there is no end-all solution:

• Respond only supports min and max width and print/screen media types, and does not support em width selectors.
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It seems like there is a conflict, between selectivizr and css3mediaqueries.

This article looks at a solution for getting over that issue with respond and selectivizr.

Here is a discussion of the issue.

This discussion is closer to what I need but still no official solution.

Patton Oswalt's Star Wars

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I think that would be interesting to play with Vection in video games. Vection is the perception of self-motion induced by visual stimuli.

4 am sirens

Usually it's pretty quiet out in the country, except for a passing train horn, and the wind pressing on the siding. Woke up to hear a lot of sirens in the morning, must have been this fire at the elementary school. I just hope it's not really arson. Who is that messed up? It's difficult enough for local governments to get funding for education as it is.

Brain Games

Love this show, Brain Games, especially the "gentleman thief" Apollo Robbins. To test one of the visual phenomena, I created this quick canvas experiment, braingame01. The flashing white to black dots continue at the same rate, but when a border is added, they appear to alternate.

Github: Calendar Service

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Star Trek: Disaster

Similar but not exactly like the script, "Then I shall appoint you my executive officer in charge of radishes."

However, we never find out what Marissa's science fair project is.

Blue Angels

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds summer appearances might be cancelled due to sequestration. What they inspire in terms of skill and teamwork is awe-inspiring and I wish that Congress would make the decisions necessary to keep the government working in a steady-state, for the programs that really matter, create, build, and inspire.

Van Halen - Dreams Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II version

Dreams F/A-18 version

FC Kahuna - Hayling - "Don't think about all those things you fear. Just be glad to be here."

The Taste of Tea

Borrowed The Taste of Tea from the library this weekend. Interesting, long movie that only captures a little of everyone's characters, but very relaxing view of life in the countryside in rural Japan.

The Haruno family is an interesting group of individuals. The littlest girl, Sachiko keeps viewing massive versions of herself, daydreaming, such as seeing a giant version of her head in the back of the classroom. There are other odd interactions such as bumping into a couple of costumed characters in a train, a ghost Yakuza, a man buried alive in mud, and a throwdown fight between the sister and her co-worker.

They all have life-changing conflicts and face important changes during this time. The little girl has trouble with gymnastics. The young boy wants to make a girlfriend. The grandfather wants to create pop music. The mother returns to artistry in anime. The uncle readdresses a relationship he skipped out on earlier.

At the end it feels like a life tale - sunsets are beautiful, birdsongs are soothing, even if life seems difficult, it's not really that bad (except for the couple Yakuza related scenes).

FOLK

Found out John Elliott is in FOLK.

Success Kid

The Chip

Picked up The Chip by T. R. Reid at a Hudson bookstore. Interesting historical, limited technical look at the steps leading up to the invention of the silicon processor chip. Before each of several inventions several things happened, the people had worked on similar more fundamental problems elsewhere, so they were versed in what had been attempted and what to stay away from, they were motivated by engineering limitations of cost, numbers, and size, and they had a gap of time to work on the problem "in the lab".

Blakes 7 on SyFy?

A new version of Blakes 7 may be arriving soon. Hope it is interesting. I loved the original.

Star Frontiers

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Steampunk Cards

Saw these Steampunk playing cards, very slick, only $5.95.

Sylver

Wikipedia has a note that Silvy De Bie left in February, but there is no reference to this yet on the Sylver website. It's unfortunate, I really liked their music. Probably as they got older, wouldn't it be nice to move on from music and fame and live a little more normal life?

Vegetable Soup - Outerscope

Used to watch this show as a kid. Messed up but I think it was the first sci fi I was exposed to. Plenty of examples though of labeling in children's programs, "Wierdos".

Cranes

Here comes the future...

Future Song

Zen is Emmet

According to this article, Zen coding is now Emmet. Here is an Emmet plugin for Eclipse

Javascript end loop wrapper

I was taking an HTML5 Game Development course and saw a neat trick for wrapping at the end of a sequence:

index = index + 1 % array.length;

It saves 3 lines of code, the usual:

index++
if (index > array.length) {
index = 0;
}

Caution: Dash Rendar

Hilarious ST:TNG episode summaries.

Arc reactor

Here is a DIY visual description on how to make a low cost (non-functional) Arc reactor like Iron Man's stunt double probably wears.

Chrome DevTools Course

codeschool

Orbital

My son and I have started playing Orbit War from Steve Jackson Games this week. Here is my physics 2d engine experimentation somewhat related to this: orbital.

Space Madness

Maybe something good maybe something bad.

Robo Hamster

Picked up an Arduino Shield last week and a Robo Hamster. Robo is short for Roborovski. He seems pretty smart though a little messy. It's interesting a golf ball sized creature can do so much.

Megagaming

Starship Renders

• Mad ship yard
• Minecraft

Spaceship size comparison

Today I saw a starship size comparison wall chart.

Backbone

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3d js

http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/ - sweet 3d blog entry.

Skyfall

What it truly means.

Bastille - Pompeii

Original

Метеорит

Kascade & Deadmau5

I Remember

Summer Wars

Saw this will be at minicon. A lot of the movies listed there look pretty interesting.

Con of the North 2012 - Day Two

Played Nanuk in the morning. Seems the odds are typically with the doomers in that game. Played a campaign as a Loremaster Faen in an Unearthed Arcana, Pathfinder hybrid. Picked up Imperium, first edition, a GDW space game. Looks like Dylan is still sick, so I'm staying home today from the con.

Con of the North 2012 - Day One

Played 3 games today, 7 wonders, Blue Planet - a FASA RPG, and Castle Panic, all of which were fun in their own right.

Redlight: Housed up piano chords takin' me back to the 90s

Lost in Love

Get out of my head

Zedd and Foxes - Clarity

I wonder if they obtained copyright permission from Egypt to use all the pyramids.

JT Holodeck

Brother Ali - Fresh Air

I love the life I live.

Became

Curve

Coming up roses

Little Free Library

I first saw one of these Little Free Libraries at the Hospital/clinic in Hudson. This is a neat idea. I remember our American History course had this idea though in our room at John F. Kennedy Senior High in Bloomington, MN. I have a books saved up that I think I'll drop off at the one in Hudson. The motto is, "Give a book, return a book".

Orchestral Trance

pvd for an angel

Dune (Happy Hardcore)

Million miles from home

Dark side of the moon

Are you ready to fly (based on Rozwalla?)

SpeedTest.net

Work

Home

Home, March

97%

97%

Counting songs

Thievery Corporation - Warning Shots: "A one to the two and three and..."

Atmosphere - Puppets: "One for the bass two for the drums..."

Starcraft Lego

Loud Commercial Act

Now with the loud commercial act in place, somehow there should be a way to measure RMS, average decibles, submission to the FCC. Seriously it's gotten worse not better since the law is passed. Does every cable station have a waiver?