Craig & All, The fragment below from Craig is a great clear answer - and it came out of Craig's knowledge, AND James's knowledge and Micael's stubbornness - altogether a good team effort. How about a beer and a group hug :)
Regards, Phil > 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]>
