Thanks, Scott. That's pretty much just what I was looking for. To make it even
better, I'm having my servlet set the path info (/myfiles) as an attribute of the
request. That way I can dynamically build the base URL like so:
<base href="http://<%= request.getServerName() %><%= request.getAttribute("Path")
%>/">
Dave F.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Forwarding & Relative Refs, cont'd
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 12:35:44 -0700
From: Scott Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Caucho Technology
How about adding a base section to the html head? It's not perfect, but it might
reduce the clutter:
<head>
<base href='http://hostname/myfiles'>
</head>
I don't know how well supported it is by the various browsers.
-- Scott
Dave Ferguson wrote:
> I'm looking for more clever solutions.
>
> My problem also occurs when I use RequestDispatcher.forward() to forward to a JSP
>page (see original posting below). In my case, the JSP page contains relative links
>like <img src="images/picture.gif"> and they are not being found. The JSP is not in
>the server's root directory, but in a subdirectory called /myfiles (picture.gif is in
>a directory called /myfiles/images).
>
> I know I can solve the problem by using <img src="/myfiles/images/picture.gif">, but
>I don't want to hard-code any of this path information into the JSP. I want to keep
>the links relative to the JSP's location.
>
> Since my servlet that does the forwarding knows the path, I've thought about storing
>a value in the session object (i.e., session.putValue( "Path", "/myfiles" ). Then, I
>could use <img src="<%= session.getValue("Path") %>/images/picture.gif">. But my
>concern here is that I don't want to muck up the HTML tags and potentially draw the
>wrath of web page designers who may be frightened by such a thing. Not to mention
>they may be using GUI tools won't ever see the HTML.
>
> I can also make it work by using sendRedirect() instead of forward(), but of course,
>I don't want the extra trip to the client.
>
> Is there a way to keep my relative links and still use forward()?
>
> Dave F.
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