I've had a search through the archives but could not find any discussion on
this specific problem with relative URL's in JSPs. I must be doing
something stupid, because this should happen to everyone?
I forward from a servlet to JSP and the JSP contains static relative links
to other pages. In this case it's the reference to a CSS style sheet in the
same directory as the JSP, eg.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
However, because the browser originally submitted a request to the Servlet's
URL (eg. http://host/app/servlet/action) it interpretes these links relative
to that url and goes looking for the style sheet at
http://host/app/servlet/style.css. Not completely unexpected I guess...
I have tried using the HTTPServletResponse.encodeURL and encodeRedirectURL
methods in the JSP to no avail, eg.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="<%=response.encodeURL("style.css")%>">
I guess these only add the stuff for session tracking, they don't seem to
allow for the modified HttpServetRequest URI in force in after forwarding to
the JSP code ?
It looks like I could set the JSP page's base location with something like
<head>
<base href="<%=request.getRequestURI()%>">
</head>
Then, other relative links on the page might should work? For some other
strange reason the CSS link still doesn't work with this, I think it might
be a mime type thing in tomcat, because if I go directly to JSP it works???
But even this seems like a lot of trouble to do on every page and I haven't
seen it discussed before. How are other people handling this? Or am I
missing something simple and its just too late at night for me to be working
on this stuff ?:-)
Thanks
Drew Cox
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