I'm pretty sure it's a standard HTML tag.
Brien Voorhees
Invest.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Duffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: URLs in web apps
> HI,
>
> Is that a HTML 4.0 tag? I never saw that one before.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Clark
> > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:48 AM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: Re: URLs in web apps
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, you could use this syntax...
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <base href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>" />
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <a href="file.jsp">click</a>
> > </body>
> >
> > In general, the servlet engine automatically maps the directory
> > name to the
> > application, but references to URLs from standard HTML tags are not
> > automatically mapped. When the <base href> tag is used, all
> > relative URLs are
> > resolved relative to this value. If your application is mapped
> > to the directory
> > "myapp", then in the example above the href would reference
> > "/myapp/file.jsp".
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Kevin Duffey wrote:
> >
> > > I think your ok..but I use the request.getContextPath() in a
"included"
> > > header file on all my JSP pages. I assign it to a contextPath
> > string var and
> > > use it in all my href tags <a href="<%= contextPath
> > > %>/path/file.jsp">click</a>
> > >
> > > But, I believe the spec allows relative paths to the root of
> > the web app.
> > > So, if your root is /, and the dir is i3-web, and you have a linke to
> > > /path/page.jsp, it would be from /i3-web/path/page.jsp.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kurt Hoyt
> > > > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 7:31 PM
> > > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > > Subject: URLs in web apps
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've noticed an inconsistency in how URLs are used within the
> > > > servlet engine
> > > > in Orion. Perhaps I've never had to deal with this since this
> > is the first
> > > > servlet engine I've used that supports .war files, server.xml,
web.xml
> > > > files, etc.
> > > >
> > > > I have a web app that is deployed like this:
> > > >
> > > > server.xml contains this line:
> > > > <application name="i3" path="../i3"/>
> > > >
> > > > default-web-site.xml contains this line:
> > > > <web-app application="i3" name="i3-web" root="/i3"/>
> > > >
> > > > application.xml contains these lines:
> > > > </module>
> > > > <web>
> > > > <web-uri>i3-web</web-uri>
> > > > <context-root>/</context-root>
> > > > </web>
> > > > </module>
> > > >
> > > > I expect that absolute URLs used anywhere in my JSPs (and
> > that includes <a
> > > > href="..">, <%@ include file="..." %>, and
> > response.sendRedirect() calls)
> > > > would look like this /i3/<rest of URL>. However, I've noticed that
for
> > > > anything other than <a href="..."> tags, the /i3 is implied
> > and all I need
> > > > is /<rest of URL> for absolute paths.
> > > >
> > > > I have two questions:
> > > > 1. What does the context-root element do? The servlet and JSP
> > specs are
> > > > pretty vague about this.
> > > >
> > > > 2. Should I be calling request.getContextPath() and using it to
create
> > > > absolute URLs for <a href="..."> tags or just try and use
> > relative URLs
> > > > within the <a href="..."> tags?
> > > >
> > > > Kurt in Atlanta
> > > >
> >
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