Tomcat doesn't let you access anything in the META-INF or WEB-INF folders.  
These folders have config for your system, and may contain passwords (such as 
META-INF/context.xml which has passwords for the datasources).  Besides, people 
can get into WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes and web.xml and see your 
implementation details.

--- On Mon, 1/23/12, Alastair Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Alastair Baldwin <[email protected]>
> Subject: Unable to access images stored in webapps/<myapp>/WEB-INF/images ?
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, January 23, 2012, 5:21 PM
> Dear Users
> 
> Why am I able to access images stored here:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/imageUploader/1234.jpg
> 
> 
> but not here:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/imageUploader/WEB-INF/images/1234.jpg
> 
> 
> File permissions are the same
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alastair
> 
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