Thanks, I feared that. Okay. Much appreciated. Sorry about the flame war, but I have a temper and just cannot stand rudeness in people who don't know or even bother finding out what they are responding to. Micael
At 12:22 PM 5/1/02 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 1 May 2002, Micael Padraig Og mac Grene wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 12:11:52 -0700 > > From: Micael Padraig Og mac Grene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: You suck! No, You suck! > > > > Thanks for threatening to stop the car, Craig. ///;-0 But, could you > > PLEASE answer my question about STRUTS. It is about struts and only about > > struts. Flash file arrays (built by others) reference other Flash files in > > the same directory, and I need to know, since the reference (include) is > > inside the swf and cannot be changed by myself, can it be used inside > > WEB-INF in struts? > > > >I don't know anything specific about Flash, so this is a repeat of an >answer to this question from someone else that got lost in the shuffle. > >Background Issue - Things inside /WEB-INF are visible to your application >(i.e. you can do request dispatcher include and forward calls with them) >but not to your client. > >Therefore - *IF* the Flash client tries to do a second HTTP request to get >the referenced file, it will fail. I suspect this is probably what >happens, but really don't have a clue. > >The same thing will happen in a non-Flash scenario if your JSP page >"/WEB-INF/mypage.jsp" contains a relative reference to an image in the >same directory: > > <img src="logo.gif"> > >The image retrieval (done by the browser as a separate HTTP request) will >fail, because the absolute URL will be something like: > > http://www.mycompany.com/myapp/WEB-INF/logo.gif > >and the container will disallow direct client access to the >context-relative path "/WEB-INF/logo.gif". > >Craig > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

