I don't think Tomcat does, but your local browser will. You are sending your browser a link that tells it to load a file on your file system. It will work fine if you are only running locally, but it won't work if you try to access that link from a browser on another machine unless that machine also has the same file locally.
-Rob -----Original Message----- From: Mark Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:14 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: accessing an image outside my webapp by jingo. it only works!! just src rather than href <html:img src="file:///test.jpg" /> I thought tomcat wouldn't have access to anything outside the webapp. On 15 Jan 2004, at 15:03, Richard Hightower wrote: > seems like an odd request... but here goes... > > <html:img href="file://c:/photo directory/foo.gif"/> > > html:img supports three attributes for specifyin the location of an > image > forward (referes to a global forward), page (relative to the current > web > context), and href (any valid URL). > > Rick Hightower > Developer > > Struts/J2EE training -- http://www.arc-mind.com/strutsCourse.htm > > Struts/J2EE consulting -- > http://www.arc-mind.com/consulting.htm#StrutsMentoring > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alain Van Vyve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: accessing an image outside my webapp > > > > I have a JSP where I would like to show an image located outside my > webapp > (e.g. in a c:\photo directory) ... > > How to do that with the <html:img> Struts tag ?? > > Thanks > > Alain > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
