Thanks a lot. That clarifies it.
I need to write a servlet which can handle such requests and code the
retrieval of the artefact from there.
It complicates the programming, but I understand the logic behind it. I will
get back to these forums if I need help implementing the same.
Regards.
Mar
thunderhead wrote:
I understand your observation. But how am I (or anyone for that matter) to
work around this? If I have a progam that is going to access content that is
stored remotely, or content from a repository, is it not impractical to
expect the content to be available from tomcat? How do
I understand your observation. But how am I (or anyone for that matter) to
work around this? If I have a progam that is going to access content that is
stored remotely, or content from a repository, is it not impractical to
expect the content to be available from tomcat? How do developers work
aro
You may be running into a cross-scripting issue with your browser. The
security in browsers doesn't normally allow online content any access to
local files. Make sure all the content you are trying to access from
the page offered by tomcat is available from tomcat.
--David
thunderhead wrote
Hi again,
This is an addendum to my earlier post, which highlights the linking problem
mentioned earlier and introduces another one (sigh).
The directory structure of my web application is the following:
GSDC5P1 (root)
---
docs | images | lib | mindmaps
index.html
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I understand what you're getting at. I am running a local instance of Tomcat,
which means that both the client and the server are in my workstation. So
shouldn't the local linkages work then?
Now, bringing the files into the webapps folder is a convenient solution.
But the issue is that this web
> From: thunderhead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: HTML hyperlink problem in Apache Tomcat 5.5
>
> I tried linking some local files on my workstation for
> testing purposes.
You can't do that. Each link is evaluated in the environment of the
*client* (browser, in your case). Unless the
