>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 9:26 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Any way to import file as a resource?
>>
>>
>> >>>>> "David" == David M Karr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> I'm not sure why you say <c:import> won't work.
>> You can do this, which I
Martin> think is what you want:
>>
Martin> <c:import var="xml" url="/WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
>>
David> Hmm. That wasn't working. The resulting variable
>> was empty. I guess I'll
David> have to track it in the debugger. I don't see
>> what could be wrong.
>>
>> After tracking the "c:import of "/WEB-INF/web.xml", I don't
>> see why I didn't
>> get anything. However, I did try adding imports of several
>> other files, to see
>> whether they worked or not:
>>
>> /thing.xml: Worked
>> /dir/thing2.xml: Worked
>> /WEB-INF/anotherThing.xml: Failed
>> /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml: Failed
>>
>> Is this related to the restriction against directly serving
>> files in the
>> WEB-INF directory? I had no problem getting
>> "/WEB-INF/web.xml" with the
>> bean:resource Struts tag. All of these tests are running in TC 4.0.4.
Martin> This looks like a bug in Tomcat 4.0.4. I've now tested the JSP code I
posted
Martin> in Resin 2.1.4 with fast JSTL (i.e. Resin's own implementation) and regular
Martin> JSTL (i.e. the Jakarta Taglibs implementation), and in Tomcat 4.0.4 and
Martin> Tomcat 4.1.10. The only one that failed was Tomcat 4.0.4.
Martin> Looks like time to upgrade! ;-)
Yup. After setting up 4.1.10, "c:import" of anything in "WEB-INF" now works
fine (and the manager app is REALLY nice).
However, I've come to the conclusion that the "bean:resource" tag is still
useful in the new library. The only (well, ok, probably more than one :) )
reason "c:import" now works for XML files in "WEB-INF" is that there's no
servlet mapped for that url pattern. If I want to open a file in the
application as a resource, I really should do exactly that. I don't think
there's any practical way to use "c:import" to load in the source code of a JSP
page, for a "showSource" page, for instance.
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