HI,
Is that a HTML 4.0 tag? I never saw that one before.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Clark
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:48 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: URLs in web apps
>
>
> Alternatively, you could use this syntax...
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <base href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>" />
> </head>
> <body>
> <a href="file.jsp">click</a>
> </body>
>
> In general, the servlet engine automatically maps the directory
> name to the
> application, but references to URLs from standard HTML tags are not
> automatically mapped. When the <base href> tag is used, all
> relative URLs are
> resolved relative to this value. If your application is mapped
> to the directory
> "myapp", then in the example above the href would reference
> "/myapp/file.jsp".
>
> Mike
>
> Kevin Duffey wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
>
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