So, hitting an invalid context gets you the root context? Isn't that a little insecure?
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Lionel Farbos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 3:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trying to retrieve the ROOT context in Servlet. Hi Jeffrey, I use Tomcat 5.0.30 and, when I use getServletContext().getContext("/toto"), if the Context toto doesn't exist, it returns the root context. On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:32:25 -0600 "Jeffrey Lanham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying for days and tons of google searches and mail archive > searches and can't find an answer to the quandry I find > myself in. > > I need to allow users to upload to a directory in the ROOT context of my > tomcat server. For some reason, and it may be a security > deal, I can't retrieve the server context for "/" so I can get the actual > path to upload the file. It always comes back null. I > know that the Java servlet specifications say the null may be returned if the > container, for some reason, doesn't want to return the > context. I don't know if it's a tomcat configuration, or if there is some > other mechanism to use besides > getServletContext().getContext("/"). Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Jeffrey Lanham > > Miller Curtain Company > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- -------- 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]
