Robert The client browser is making a request to a webserver using a "relative address" I think it would be best to understand the difference between "relative addressing" and "absolute addressing" I invite you to read http://www.drizzle.com/~slmndr/tutorial/relabs.html -Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Nocera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: RE: accessing an image outside my webapp
> 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
