> and that's bad because users shouldn't be able to get to WEB-INF directly > should they?
It's not that they shouldn't, it's that the servlet container won't directlty serve pages that are under web-inf. Ted recommended to put your jsp under web-inf only if they are diplayed through an Action. That way, the only things the user gets to see are actions; They can't bookmark jsps, which gives you more flexibility to rename/reorganize them. --Vincent > > 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
