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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:13:40+00:00

I have an Spring application (with Spring Security and Spring MVC) deployed in a

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I have an Spring application (with Spring Security and Spring MVC) deployed in a Tomcat server. The application works perfecty in Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE9.

I have a weird problem with IE8. The login screen loads, and (as I can see in server logs) the session is open when username and password are provided. Once the user is logged, and the browser is redirected to the main page, a 404 error is returned by the server.

As IE8 developer tools doesn’t have a net panel, I have used Fiddler to monitor http connections. I thought that it could be happening that it was doing a wrong request during page loading but it was the main page request wich is responsing with 404.

How is it possible that the server responses with 404 to the main page request just only in IE8?

Thank you.

Edited:

Those are the request header for IE8 and Firefox respectively:

GET /myWebApp/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-ms-application, image/jpeg, application/xaml+xml, image/gif, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: es-ES
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
UA-CPU: AMD64
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: dev.mydomain.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: JSESSIONID=ABA1382304002F894ABDFCC2442FA5F8; SPRING_SECURITY_REMEMBER_ME_COOKIE=NGUxMTZlOTY3OGM0OTgxNDY4NDczOTlkOjEzMjQ1ODMwMzU0MDI6OWZiYzdhYjY1ODY2Mzc3YmI0Yzc5YTMzMWI5NDhjNTg

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GET /myWebApp/ HTTP/1.1
Host: dev.mydomain.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: es-es,chrome://global/locale/intl.properties;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: JSESSIONID=7FD3B02252E2FCBC9BE7249AFD84F541; SPRING_SECURITY_REMEMBER_ME_COOKIE=NGUxMmYxMTgzMmRjZTM0NzYyMWVjOWEwOjEzMjQ1ODMwMTA1MTU6MzFiYzU4OGQ4NTMwN2Y3M2I4YmQzN2M0NzY2MzcwZjI
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  1. Editorial Team

    Knowing that the problem was about “Accept” I have revised the MVC Controller classes mappings and I have finaly found the issue. Somehow this was the way that the main page was mapped in MVC so it didn’t work whith the IE8 header attribute:

    @RequestMapping( value = "/", headers = "Accept=text/*" )

    I have learned a hard lesson today. 😉

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