Additionally, does it follow that <img> elements have to refer to images located outside the WEB-INF directory (Since no content from WEB-INF can be served directly to the browser request)? Is there a way to use CSS and images from within WEB-INf so that a client wouldn't be able to get to them on its own?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Roman Sokolyuk <romsok.t...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you very much for your time. > This fixed the problem. > > I have only one question. How does the browser determine which parts of the > URL to strip? > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > >> Roman Sokolyuk wrote: >> ... >> >> >>> header2.jsp >>> ------------------ >>> <link href="../../CSS/style1.css" rel="stylesheet" >>> type="text/css"/> >>> >> ... >> >>> >>> The CSS directory is under the app context, alongside WEB-INF. >>> >>> Am I specifying the path to the CSS correctly? Anyone can suggest what >>> else >>> I may be doing wrong? >>> >>> >> I am not a JSP specialist, but I would guess that your problem is indeed >> with the above. >> >> You have to think from the point of view of /the browser/, because it is >> the browser who will interpret this, relatively to where /it/ thinks it has >> got the original page from. >> >> In other words, suppose that the user's browser originally gets this page >> from a link like : >> http://somehost/myapp/somedir?somequery >> >> Then, to obtain the above stylesheet, the browser is going to : >> - strip the ? and whatever is after it (if anything) >> - strip the last element of the path (somedir), leaving >> http://somehost/myapp/ >> - add the relative reference (../../CSS/style1.css) to that, resulting in >> http://somehost/myapp/../../CSS/style1.css >> >> Now, does that point to the right place on the server ? >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >
