Kevin Duffey wrote:
>
> Thanks Hans. This is what I thought. I don't remember what the problem was
> but I did something like this and ran into problems before. When only a
> single app is deployed, or a Servlet 2.1 or earlier, it is perfectly ok to
> use /images/path/image.gif, or /path/page.jsp. But when working with
> web-apps in Servlet 2.2, its necessary to properly map via relative paths.
> So, I take it a link in the SAME root dir of any given web-app would not be
> <a href="/file.jsp"></a> but <a href="file.jsp"></a> so that it is
> "relative" to the location of the page that has the link in it?
Right. A relative path in an HTML element is a path that doesn't start with
a slash, such as "file.jsp" or "../file.jsp". The browser interprets it as
relative to the URL for the page that contains it.
Hans
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