Re: c:url and context path completion

Kris Schneider wrote:
> On 11/28/07, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Kris Schneider wrote:
>>     
>>> On 11/28/07, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This wouldn't happen to be a JSP sitting in webapps/ROOT, would it?
>>> Just checking...
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> No, it's sitting in "webapps/appname/WEB-INF/jsp/otherdir/somejsp.jsp"
>>     
>
> Oh well, worth a shot. I don't have TC 6 installed to test, but maybe
> I'll do that later tonight. Does TC 6 come with an implementation of
> JSTL 1.2 or are you using JSTL 1.1? Does your app use a Servlet 2.5 or
> 2.4 web.xml?
>
>   
I tried 5.5 just now, and it has the same problem.

Tomcat 6 does not come with JSTL.

web.xml is using 2.3
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">


I am using JSTL 1.1.2