String Out of Bounds Exception Thrown

When deploying an application, the placement of the MANIFEST.MF file in a loose application xml can cause a java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException during MyFaces initialization. This problem occurs with the following path: /tmp/war/MANIFEST.MF 

This issue was solved in JSF 2.3 with MYFACES-4273, but not in JSF 2.2.

By moving the catch block to the outer try block in myfaces/view/facelets/util/Classpath.java, the StringIndexOutOfBoundsException will be caught, and the  faces initialization will continue normally. 

Stack Trace:

Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
    at java.base/java.lang.String.substring(String.java:2628)
    at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.util.Classpath._searchFromURL(Classpath.java:246)
    at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.util.Classpath._searchResource(Classpath.java:119)
    at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.util.Classpath.search(Classpath.java:69)
    at org.apache.myfaces.config.DefaultFacesConfigResourceProvider.getMetaInfConfigurationResources(DefaultFacesConfigResourceProvider.java:90)
    at org.apache.myfaces.config.DefaultFacesConfigurationProvider.getClassloaderFacesConfig(DefaultFacesConfigurationProvider.java:312)
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