The next time you hit the page it works though, right? If you're tracking sessions via cookies, subsequent responses won't need to do URL rewriting. It actually looks like it's a server bug. Hitting
http://www.sun.com/im/sun_logo.gif;jsessionid=foo works just fine (SunONE WebServer 6.0), whereas hitting http://www.apache.org/images/asf_logo_wide.gif;jsessionid=foo results in a 404 (Apache/2.0.48-dev (Unix)). Same here ;-) (Microsoft-IIS/6.0) http://www.microsoft.com/homepage/gif/bnr-microsoft.gif;jsessionid=foo You might try something like: <body background="<c:out value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/gray.jpg"/>"> Quoting Michael Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm following the recommendations laid out by Shawn > Bayern in "JSTL In Action", but I've run into a snag. > > On page 136, Shawn recommends using the <c:url> tag > for referring to a directory named images in a Web > application: > > <body background="<c:url value='/images/gray.jpg'/>"> > <!-- other HTML stuff in here > </body> > > When I ask Tomcat to send this page, the background is > not there. When I View Source to look at the HTML, I > see this: > > <body > background="/mock-trading-partner/images/gray.jpg;jsessionid=9B0DA55495E2CD9BF40AAD98A4E115D8"> > > Looks to me like that jsessionid is making it so I > can't find the background. How do I get rid of it? > Thanks - MOD -- Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
