"Ray Tayek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 01:04 PM 3/3/03 -0500, you wrote: > >Ray Tayek wrote: > >>hi, i am forwarding a request to a static html page that has some > >>pictures included using <IMG SRC="images/help1.jpeg" ...> and using > >>request.getRequestDispatcher("/help.html").forward(request,response);. > >>the static html file file comes back sans images. but pointing a browser > >>to http://tayek.com:8080/feb/help.html works fine. seems like the path > >>that the static page inherits is hosed somehow. is there some way to set > >>that path? > > > >According to SRV.8.4 of the Servlet 2.3 spec, "The Forward Method": > > > >"The path elements of the request object exposed to the target servlet > >must reflect the path used to obtain the RequestDispatcher. The only > >exception to this is if the RequestDispatcher was obtained via the > >getNamedDispatcher method. In this case, the path elements of the request > >object must reflect those of the original request." > > > >I'm not sure how to interpret this exactly -- but it seems to say that the > >request object inherited in the "target servlet" (which I can only assume > >also applies to "target HTML pages" as well, since targets of the > >"forward" method can be either servlets, JSPs, or HTML pages) should match > >the path used to obtain the RequestDispatcher. > > > >Are you using "getNamedDispatcher"? If so then the request object will > >have the original HTTP request's path elements. If you are using > >"getRequestDispatcher" and passing it a path, then this would suggest that > >you are experiencing a bug in Tomcat. > > i was using getRequestDispatcher(). but i have changed that to use redirect > (which works, but may cause me some problems later with session - not sure, > but i want to have the guy stay in that same sessiosn even if goes off and > looks at a static page - i am worried about people who don't allow cookies > and if i don't do some kind of url encoding on the static file i may get > hosed - maube i should just copy it througt the servlet?).
Another way to go is to use absolute paths to your image files (e.g. <img src="/feb/images/help1.jpeg">) and continue to use rd.forward. At the risk of breaking some very old browsers, you could also use the <base href="/feb/"> html tag and keep your relative image paths. > > i found some sort of answer in jason hunters book (2nd edition) on page > 375. something about tomcat and relative links being broken and the client > not getting any notice that the file was served from the document root > directory. > The problem is that the browser issues a seperate request for the image files as it is parsing the html. Since the browser has no way of knowing that the request is the result of a 'forward', it resolves the relative URL (i.e. "images/help1.jpeg") against the URL that it made the request for. So if the forwarding servlet was acessed from http://myserver/feb/servlet/MyServlet, then the browser will try and fetch the image from http://myserver/feb/servlet/images/help1.jpeg, and get a 404 response in return. > thanks > > --- > ray tayek http://tayek.com/ actively seeking mentoring or telecommuting work > vice chair orange county java users group http://www.ocjug.org/ > hate spam? http://samspade.org/ssw/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
