You should use something like
ServletContext ct = config.getServletContext();
URL url=ct.getResource("/WEB-INF/foo/bar/bletch")
This avoid hard coding in a path in to your servlet, which avoids all sorts of
.. problems.
D.
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>Hi
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>I'm using Tomcat 3.2 and IIS on Windows NT. I have a servlet that is
>accessed by the url wwwroot/Application/servlet/ServletName and is
>physically located at e:\tomcat\Application\WEB-INF\classes\ServletName.
>Within the servlet I want to open a URLConnection and I want to build the
>URL object specifying a relative path to wwwroot/cgibin/program_name. I
>can't work out how the Tomcat path fits into the web hierachy so I get the
>right number of "/../../'s" into my path. How do I specify the path?
>
>url = new URL("../../cgibin/programe_name") doesn't appear to work.
>
>Regards
>Roger
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