www.apple.com/ipodmini does a redirect to www.apple.com/ipodmini/, which is the same behavior you get from a webserver (I believe most of them, but definitely IIS) when requesting a directory without the trailing slash. (I seem to recall that Microsoft calls it a "courtesy redirect".)
If you can redirect these requests to the actual location of the page that's serving the request, your life will get easier when it comes to relative hrefs/srcs. Even if you want to hide the location of your JSP, which is not a bad idea, to live up to what apple does your page only has to work with one URL ... and the other one gets redirected to the one that works. -john. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Weissman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:54 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: ServletRequest's path elements not updated by calls to getRequestDispatcher() Ok, so what was said about using img src="/foo.gif" theoretically seems true, but in practice it does not work. And I don't have the ability to mandate a request.getContextPath() for every Link on the site. All I want to do is do what apple does if you go to www.apple.com/ipodmini or www.apple.com/ipodmini/ you get the same page. This shouldn't be that hard, but whats the best way to do it? Should I just start using Apache's mod_rewrite? Thanks again, Alan -----Original Message----- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:42 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: ServletRequest's path elements not updated by calls to getRequestDispatcher() Howdy, >No, if you use img="/foo.gif" >then '/' ALWAYS indicates to the browser to request it from the domain >root. Yeah, but you don't want to do that because what if the context path changes? A relative link would be better, and it's good that the original poster is already trying to do that, e.g. ../foo.gif. Consider using request.getContextPath() + "/images/foo.gif". Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
