Re: c:url and context path completion

Martin Cooper wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 1:01 PM, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Kris Schneider wrote:
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>>> On 11/28/07, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> Kris Schneider wrote:
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>>>>> On 11/28/07, Trenton Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>>>> 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!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> 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?
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>>>> I'm seeing it produce "/images/pluslittle.gif", and it completely
>>>> ignores the context path.  I'm using tomcat 6 and java 1.5
>>>>
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>>> This wouldn't happen to be a JSP sitting in webapps/ROOT, would it?
>>> Just checking...
>>>
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>> No, it's sitting in "webapps/appname/WEB-INF/jsp/otherdir/somejsp.jsp"
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> Well, that's very likely the cause of what you're seeing. Anything under
> WEB-INF is not permitted to be accessed directly (i.e. from outside the web
> app itself), so the context is irrelevant for such files, since it could
> never be used to access them.
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I don't think that is the problem, I do it all the time.  My servlet 
accesses the JSP's through dispatching.  The browser has no need to 
access my JSP files directly, which is why I put them in WEB-INF.  
Perhaps putting everything in WEB-INF is causing the problem, but 
definitely not for the reason you described.  But, I will be looking 
into this to see if putting my JSPs in WEB-INF is causing the problem or 
not.  But, I'm pretty darn sure this worked before.  But, then again, 
maybe it's because I never used anything other than the default context, 
so I never noticed before?!?!?!
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> Martin Cooper
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