---------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- I asked earlier this week about using images under SSL for servlet- generated HTML. Since no one had an answer, I came up with this. I'm posting it because I saw some earlier (also unanswered) questions in the archive that may be the same problem. Also, there are some drawbacks to this method so if anyone knows how to alleviate them please comment. The problem is that when the generated HTML is '<img src="Logo.gif"/>', the browser looks for it at https://(domain)/servlets/Logo.gif. You can get around this by specifying the full path to the file if you aren't using SSL, but if you are the browser complains that the image is 'insecure data'. Checking the log I saw that JServ was looking for a Java .class called Logo.gif. So... I simply created a small servlet that does nothing but PUT the requested file (setting the MIME type of course). I then made ApJServAction entries that pointed GIF's, JPEG's, and PNG's to that servlet. This works, but it does have drawbacks: 1) I've done no measurements, but I'm sure that there's a performance hit because of the extra servlet. 2) The file structure is inflexible. The served-up files _have_ to be in a directory called 'servlets'. You can have it under other directories, depending on how you code the fileserver servlet (mine's under htdocs), but the immediate parent directory has to be called 'servlets' (actually, probably whatever you used to invoke the original servlet). Having your images under a directory called servlets is not intuitive to the next poor sap who has to maintain the site. And you can't have subdirectories, either. So that's what I've got now... anyone with better ideas, speak up! thanx, Greg Groves -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Groves Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:47 PM To: Java Apache Users Subject: Location of files for generated HTML ---------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- I _think_ this a JServ issue... if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will tell me... :) I'm using Xerces/Xalan with JServ to create HTML pages from XML. The pages may include images, but I've never been able to find a relative path that can access them. So I always used the full path with the image name. This worked OK, but now I need to do SSL. And if the full path name is specified, the browser complains "You have requested a secure document that contains some insecure information." So I've tried moving the images all over the place, without success. If I put no path information at all on the SRC= parameter, Netscape 'View Page Info' shows the location as Image: https://10.0.0.5/servlets/Logo.gif So I tried actually putting the image under servlets, but it didn't work... I guess JServ assumes that everything in the servlets directory really is a servlet. Also tried subdirectories under servlets, no joy. So... is there any way to specify a relative path to an image file under JServ? I'm using Apache 1.3.12 and JServ 1.1.2 under Win98 (obviously not a production system :) thanks, Greg Groves -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Search Archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/java-apache-users%40list.working-dogs.com/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Search Archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/java-apache-users%40list.working-dogs.com/> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
