FORM scope always empty? URL scope is fine? - forms

Question

I'm running a legacy CF Fusebox 5.5 app within Railo 4.0.2.002 Express with Jetty 8 on Mac OS X 10.8 with java 1.7.
I'm also using jetty urlrewrite http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ (if that's relevant)
Why is the FORM scope always blank upon form submissions? But if I use the URL scope it works fine.
The app has worked fine in all other versions of CF and should also work fine here.
UPDATE 1:
Also, when I do onRequestStart within Application.cfc and I dump the FORM scope it's empty there too.
Anyone have trouble with this? I don't think it's necessarily "fusebox" so I'm wondering if it's a Railo 4 compatibility issue?
UPDATE 2:
When the form posts to /admin/index.cfm?event=Main.Login
the form scope work fine. But when it posts to /admin/event/Main.Login the form scope is gone.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite
PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 3.0//EN"
"http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite3.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite>
<rule>
<from>^/admin/event/(.*)</from>
<to last="false">/admin/index.cfm?event=$1</to>
</rule>
<rule>
<from>^/lms/event/(.*)</from>
<to last="false">/lms/index.cfm?event=$1</to>
</rule>
</urlrewrite>
UPDATE 3:
It should also be noted that Charles (proxy) is properly detecting the 'POST' Request contains the Email / Password and other form elements properly sent to the server.
The Jetty server is simply not seeing them or not properly forwarding them on to the Railo engine or something?
UPDATE 4:
Here is the tuckey configuration that they tell you to place in your web.xml. I actually placed this in the webdefault.xml in etc/ directory of Railo Express which I guess could just be Jetty files.
<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
<dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
<dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

Answer 1

I had a number of issues with Tuckey and ended up using Apache and modrewrite for features that Tuckey just didn't support. That being said Railo + Tomcat/Jetty is not ColdFusion with Jrun and the configuration was challenging to ensure that mod_rewrite had all the request information and even had the request at all. Even Adobe had to patch CF10 after release because they were missing original functionality from CF9-+JRUN connectors.
However, for your solution, you need to reach up and out. See the thread here.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/railo/uw-U9hCFu5k/bEmr_I2Kl8sJ
Other people have the same problem, and have worked around it by placing this in onRequestStart:
<cfscript>
if(gethTTPRequestData().method eq "POST") {
if(NOT structKeyExists(form,"fieldnames")) {
var paramMap = getPageContext().getRequest().getParameterMap();
var paramMapKeys = structKeyList(paramMap);
form.fieldnames = paramMapKeys;
for(x =1; x lte listLen(paramMapKeys); x++) {
param = listGetAt(paramMapKeys,x);
form[param] = paramMap[param][1];
}
}
}
</cfscript>
It's not clear if this is a bug in Jetty, Railo, or Tuckey.