diff --git a/jetty-servlet/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/servlet/ServletContextResourcesTest.java b/jetty-servlet/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/servlet/ServletContextResourcesTest.java
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+//
+//  ========================================================================
+//  Copyright (c) 1995-2016 Mort Bay Consulting Pty. Ltd.
+//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+//  are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+//  and Apache License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution.
+//
+//      The Eclipse Public License is available at
+//      http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+//
+//      The Apache License v2.0 is available at
+//      http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
+//
+//  You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
+//  ========================================================================
+//
+
+package org.eclipse.jetty.servlet;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.LocalConnector;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.toolchain.test.MavenTestingUtils;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.IO;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class ServletContextResourcesTest
+{
+    public static class ResourceAsStreamServlet extends HttpServlet
+    {
+        @Override
+        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException
+        {
+            resp.setContentType("text/plain");
+            resp.setCharacterEncoding("utf-8");
+            String pathInfo = req.getPathInfo();
+
+            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+
+            try (InputStream in = req.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream(pathInfo))
+            {
+                if (in == null)
+                {
+                    out.write("<null>".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    IO.copy(in, out);
+                }
+            }
+
+            String resourceContents = new String(out.toByteArray(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+            resp.getWriter().printf("Resource '%s': %s", pathInfo, resourceContents);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Server server;
+    private LocalConnector connector;
+    private ServletContextHandler context;
+
+    @Before
+    public void init() throws Exception
+    {
+        server = new Server();
+
+        connector = new LocalConnector(server);
+        connector.getConnectionFactory(HttpConfiguration.ConnectionFactory.class).getHttpConfiguration().setSendServerVersion(false);
+
+        Path resBase = MavenTestingUtils.getTestResourcePathDir("contextResources");
+
+        context = new ServletContextHandler();
+        context.setContextPath("/context");
+        context.setResourceBase(resBase.toFile().toURI().toASCIIString());
+
+        server.setHandler(context);
+        server.addConnector(connector);
+
+        server.start();
+    }
+
+    @After
+    public void destroy() throws Exception
+    {
+        server.stop();
+        server.join();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetResourceAsStream_Root() throws Exception
+    {
+        context.addServlet(ResourceAsStreamServlet.class, "/*");
+
+        StringBuffer req1 = new StringBuffer();
+        req1.append("GET /context/ HTTP/1.1\r\n");
+        req1.append("Host: local\r\n");
+        req1.append("Connection: close\r\n");
+        req1.append("\r\n");
+
+        String response = connector.getResponses(req1.toString());
+        assertThat("Response", response, containsString("Resource '/': <null>"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testGetResourceAsStream_Content() throws Exception
+    {
+        context.addServlet(ResourceAsStreamServlet.class, "/*");
+
+        StringBuffer req1 = new StringBuffer();
+        req1.append("GET /context/content.txt HTTP/1.1\r\n");
+        req1.append("Host: local\r\n");
+        req1.append("Connection: close\r\n");
+        req1.append("\r\n");
+
+        String response = connector.getResponses(req1.toString());
+        assertThat("Response", response, containsString("Resource '/content.txt': content goes here"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/jetty-servlet/src/test/resources/contextResources/content.txt b/jetty-servlet/src/test/resources/contextResources/content.txt
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+content goes here
\ No newline at end of file