The problem with the servlet is sandboxing
If you try to refer (href) to a file outside the container, it will not work
Chuck,
I want to have a jsp page with lots of jpeg's. In order to keep them in the container, I would need to put them into the war file. This would make the war file huge !

The other option is to put a softlink in the war file to point to another area of disk outside the container (I am linux based)
I had problems getting this to work properly

I ended up creating a new context with
.../tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/imageData.xml

and put my jpegs there

Now I can put the following in my jsp file
  <td>
  <a href="/imageData/alex/busc/game07/DSC_1981.jpg">
<img alt="thumb image" src="/imageData/alex/busc/game07/DSC_1981_thumb.jpg"/></a>
  </td>

when the browser gets to the img statement, it actually pulls the thumbnail from a different context

John

At 12:39 PM 10/27/2005 -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
> From: John Laughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: static server implementation?
>
> I ended up created a second context in tomcat that allows
> access to the static content (ie. large jpegs)

I'm confused.  Why wasn't Tomcat's default servlet sufficient?  It's
sole purpose is to deliver static content.

 - Chuck


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