Re: c:url and context path completion

Trenton Adams <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:02:33 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.taglibs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kris Schneider wrote:
> On 11/28/07, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> I was sure that I had read somewhere that "<c:url
>> value="/images/pluslittle.gif"/>" usage would automatically cause the
>> context path to be entered into the output of "c:url".  Is that not
>> correct?  Because it's not working!
>>     
>
> From the JSTL 1.1 Spec for <c:url>:
>
> As a consequence, an implementation must prepend the context path to a
> URL that starts with a slash (e.g. "/page2.jsp") so that such URLs can
> be properly interpreted by a client browser.
>
> So, yes, the context should be prepended. What output are you actually seeing?
>
>   
I'm seeing it produce "/images/pluslittle.gif", and it completely 
ignores the context path.  I'm using tomcat 6 and java 1.5