On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Bill Barker wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:00:35 -0800
> From: Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: AJP Todo
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Incze Lajos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:02 AM
> Subject: Re: AJP Todo
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> > What's wrong with this? (ServletContext method javadoc both 2.2 and 2.3)
>
> Absolutely nothing. And indeed this is the route I took, since looking at
> the code showed that the Naming methods still didn't guarantee an absolute
> path and this one always returns null for non-file-based contexts.
>
That's because there *is* no such thing as an absolute path for an entry
inside a WAR file. Talk to your favorite OS vendor about that one.
> Now if I can just find someone to Listen to, I'll be done :).
What is it you think should be changed?
Craig
> > ----
> > getRealPath
> >
> > public java.lang.String getRealPath(java.lang.String path)
> >
> > Returns a String containing the real path for a given virtual path.
> > For example, the path "/index.html" returns the absolute file path
> > on the server's filesystem would be served by a request for
> > "http://host/contextPath/index.html";, where contextPath is the context
> > path of this ServletContext..
> >
> > The real path returned will be in a form appropriate to the computer and
> > operating system on which the servlet container is running, including the
> > proper path separators. This method returns null if the servlet container
> > cannot translate the virtual path to a real path for any reason (such as
> > when the content is being made available from a .war archive).
> > -----
> > So, getServletContext().getRealPath( "/" )
> >
> > incze
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