On 5/4/06, Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just been gifted with a struts application to maintain. Things are pretty good, but here are two little mysteries I need a little help on. The struts jsp looks like: <td><html:link page="/"><html:img page="/images/logo.gif" alt="XX" width="326" height="111" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" /></html:link></td> And the resulting HTML is like this: <td><a href="/;jsessionid=XXXXXXXXXXX"><img src="/images/logo.gif" height="111" width="326" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" alt="XX"></a></td> Why the ";" in the jessionid, instead of &?
The servlet spec requires that the session identifier be a "path parameter" rather than a "query parameter". In the syntax of a URL, you can actually add path parameters after any element of the path ( http://localhost:8080/foo;bar=baz/bop), but the session id goes on the last one. And why is there no "/" at the end of the img tag, which is
inconsistent with the rest of the XHTML markup.
Which version of Struts are you using? I vaguely recall problems like this in the very early ones, but not more recently. These two small issues annoy the Tidy HTML validator in
Firefox, http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
It may be that the validator needs to be made to understand what a path parameter is. ----
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Craig
