OK I've sussed it myself. Got to use the <html:img> tags with a page attribute to get context relative path.
I need to avoid using <html:base/> in any JSPs because it reveals the absolute URL to the JSP. e.g. if I include it I get this appearing in the rendered page source: <base href="http://localhost:9080/myApp/WEB-INF/pages/index.jsp";> and that's bad because users shouldn't be able to get to WEB-INF directly should they? Rob Breeds Rob Breeds/UK/IBM@ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBMGB cc: Subject: how to refer to images from JSPs in WEB-INF? 19/10/2001 10:40 Please respond to struts-user The Struts example (or I read it somewhere on the husted.com pages) recommends putting JSPs under the WEB-INF folder so the JSPs can't be served directly - only by action path. This seems a good thing but I can't get it to work satisfactorily. And no examples I've found ever put the JSPs under WEB-INF! The problem this creates (for me) is that if I want to include an image in a JSP, and that image is above the WEB-INF directory, how do I refer to it? Do I use relative links: <IMG SRC="../theimage.gif> ? This works but will be a pain to maintain. I can't use an absolute URL because the JSP doesn't know the web app context base path and hardcoding the base path would be nasty. I can't use the <html:base> generated base because that is within the WEB-INF directory I can't put images under WEB-INF because that will reveal the real action path. e.g. http://host/myapp/WEB-INF/images/theimage.gif and will not show the image (can't serve from WEB-INF) Can anyone help please? Thanks Rob Breeds
