On 10/19/05, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I didn't find this in the archives, so I'll ask. > > I have a tomcat app deployed via proxypass from apache (2 in fact, a > double-proxy through 2 servers). It needs to use relative paths in its > links to ensure that the composed path is correct. Unfortunately struts > doesn't seem to want to use relative links.
So, > 1. Is there a way to make it use a relative link instead of an absolute > one? I wonder why Struts doesn't handle the "relative" links (ie Relative to the current servlet) at all. In the RequestProcessor's processForwardConfig, there is in fact a comment saying "paths not starting with / should be passed through without any processing (ie. they're absolute)" [or "relative" to the current servlet] And it calls the doForward to do the forward which just gets the RequestDispatcher from the ServletContext. The J2EE API says that the RequestDispatcher acquired from the ServletContext expects a path starting with "/". I think if the path doesn't start with a "/" then the doForward should be getting the RequestDispatcher from the Request which accepts links "relative" to the current servlet. Is this a bug or am I missing something? Anyway for you current task, I guess you can override the RequestProcessor's doForward to handle the links "relative" to the current servlet using the RequestDispatcher from the request. 2. Is there a way to force a prefix on the link? I think you can do the following way, but I don't know if it's recommended. Basically you would create a prefix or a module like "/foo/bar/me". (Just loading the config file with a contextParam config/foo/bar/me for the struts-config.xml). Struts will make the module or the path prefix as part of the links and you have to also make the contextPath to be "/" instead of "me" to the Struts App. One way would be to have a Filter which just wraps the request with HttpRequestWrapper and overriding the getContextPath to return "/". But for the outside world and the proxies the contextPath would still be "me" and everything should work as normal for those. Basically, the tomcat app is deployed as application "me". Instead of > links like > > /me > > I want > > /foo/bar/me > > Is this possible? > > Thanks, > Mike > > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 613-592-2122 x2522 > Linux applications development > "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of > nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix > > >
