SpringMVC 3 405 - Request method 'POST' not supported

Question

Controller

@Controller
public class Tester {
    @RequestMapping(value="testPost", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView testPost(){
      ModelAndView _mv = new ModelAndView();
      _mv.setViewName("shared/post");
      return _mv;
    }
}

HTML

<form action="testPost" method="post"> 
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Web.xml

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
  <display-name>iCubeHRS</display-name>

   <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>        
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

   <filter>
        <filter-name>site_mesh</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.sitemesh.config.ConfigurableSiteMeshFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>site_mesh</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

   <session-config>
        <session-timeout>20</session-timeout>
    </session-config>

</web-app>

Question

Once set "method" attribute to "POST", when you hit submit button, it always turn into 405 - Request method 'POST' not supported, if delete method attribute from conotroller, and delete method="post" from HTML as well, it works, anyone know how to solve this problem?

Update

I think I found the problem, this issue caused by sitemesh3, after i removed sitemesh3 features from web.xml, POST works fine, but I don't know how to solve it.

also make sure you actually load recompiled classes and restart the server — soulcheck, Apr 09 '13 at 07:54
hi soulcheck, please see the update, and I released this code to a separated tomcat, still the same problem. — Shore, Apr 09 '13 at 08:13
could you please try to find if this only happen withen this controller, try to create another controller and test post method see if it's working...your code seems fine!! — Muhammad Bekette, Apr 09 '13 at 17:24
actually I tested another function in this controller, and it doesn't work, okay, I will test another controller — Shore, Apr 10 '13 at 02:18
sitemesh is just filter for the request and response, before all the response return to client, sitemesh will intercept all the response and render the response with template decoration html file — Shore, Apr 10 '13 at 15:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

I am not sure if this is relevant to your setup but I had the same error (405-post not supported)

Initially I thought it was sitemesh related. However when I looked into it a bit more in my case it was because I was using <mvc:resources /> to provide a static mapping to the decorator.

it was <mvc:resources /> that was not accepting the post requests for the decorator file as sitemesh was trying to access it using a Post request.

I changed the mapping of my decorator file to make sure it was static and responded to POST and GET requests. More details here Spring: not accept POST request under mvc:resources? how to fix that

The code I used is

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
 <property name="urlMap">
     <map>
          <entry key="/DecTest/**" value="myResourceHandler" />
     </map>
 </property>
 <property name="order" value="100000" />       
</bean>

<bean id="myResourceHandler" name="myResourceHandler"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler">
      <property name="locations" value="/DecTest/" />
      <property name="supportedMethods">
         <list>
            <value>GET</value>
            <value>HEAD</value>
            <value>POST</value>
         </list>
     </property>
     <!-- cacheSeconds: maybe you should set it to zero because of the posts-->
</bean>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '13 at 10:03

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Well as you figured out that the problem was with sitemesh. this link is to a project integrating springMVC with sitemesh

answered Apr 15 '13 at 10:03

Muhammad Bekette

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Hi there, I failed to find any information from your link, would you please please paste the proper link to me again? thank you – Shore Apr 15 '13 at 13:59
well it is a link to a real project where it uses sitemesh and springMVC and I thought it would help to check it out in you machine you could use this link http://petclinicplus.googlecode.com/svn/ since you're not a member of this project then you will have to check it as readonly – Muhammad Bekette Apr 15 '13 at 15:00
yes, I reviewed the code, and I think the code using sitemesh2.3, but I'm using sitemesh3, I don't know whether 2.3 has the same problem, will do a testing – Shore Apr 15 '13 at 15:58

SpringMVC 3 405 - Request method 'POST' not supported

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