I posted a bug (29094) on 19/04/04. The webdav webapp shipped with
Tomcat 5.0.24 does not serve web folders to IE5 and IE6. The server
platform is Solaris 8 on Sun. The same behaviour is exhibited when
running Tomcat 5.0.24 on Mac OS X 10.3.3.

This is the case despite the following, recommended, web.xml setting
which is supposed to deal with bugs in IE:

 <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

The problem does not occur in the webdav webapp supplied with Tomcat
4.1.12 even though its web.xml contains:

 <servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>webdav</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

ie. the pattern that would evoke the IE bug.

Any insights would be welcome.