I think your ok..but I use the request.getContextPath() in a "included"
header file on all my JSP pages. I assign it to a contextPath string var and
use it in all my href tags <a href="<%= contextPath
%>/path/file.jsp">click</a>
But, I believe the spec allows relative paths to the root of the web app.
So, if your root is /, and the dir is i3-web, and you have a linke to
/path/page.jsp, it would be from /i3-web/path/page.jsp.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Hoyt
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:31 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: URLs in web apps
>
>
> I've noticed an inconsistency in how URLs are used within the
> servlet engine
> in Orion. Perhaps I've never had to deal with this since this is the first
> servlet engine I've used that supports .war files, server.xml, web.xml
> files, etc.
>
> I have a web app that is deployed like this:
>
> server.xml contains this line:
> <application name="i3" path="../i3"/>
>
> default-web-site.xml contains this line:
> <web-app application="i3" name="i3-web" root="/i3"/>
>
> application.xml contains these lines:
> </module>
> <web>
> <web-uri>i3-web</web-uri>
> <context-root>/</context-root>
> </web>
> </module>
>
> I expect that absolute URLs used anywhere in my JSPs (and that includes <a
> href="..">, <%@ include file="..." %>, and response.sendRedirect() calls)
> would look like this /i3/<rest of URL>. However, I've noticed that for
> anything other than <a href="..."> tags, the /i3 is implied and all I need
> is /<rest of URL> for absolute paths.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1. What does the context-root element do? The servlet and JSP specs are
> pretty vague about this.
>
> 2. Should I be calling request.getContextPath() and using it to create
> absolute URLs for <a href="..."> tags or just try and use relative URLs
> within the <a href="..."> tags?
>
> Kurt in Atlanta
>
