Hi Chris, Thanks for your response. After poking around a little more, it seems that the call
application.getRealPath(request.getServletPath()) provides the proper local file path for me. Any reason not to use that? Peter Christopher Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter, > I'm trying to figure out why I get repeated directory names when calling > "application.getRealPath(request.getRequestURI())" from an index.jsp > file. Clearly there's something about virtual hosts and contexts that > I'm missing. I suppose you /could/ do this, but usually URIs and directory structures usually don't map exactly to one another. > A request for the url: http://www.nomad.org/gallery/ > C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\My > Documents\dev\webapps\www.nomad.org\gallery\gallery Yeah. Since your URL contains the prefix "/gallery" already, it's being added. When you call "getRealPath", you're getting something rooted in "...\dev\webapps\www.nomad.org\gallery", which is the root of your webapp. Since "/gallery" in the URI, too, you're doubling it. You need to clip out the context path. This ought to do it for you: String path = request.getRequestURI(); if(path.startsWith(request.getContextPath())) path = path.substring(request.getContextPath()); path = application.getRealPath(path); Note that letting users' URIs drive files being loaded from the disk might be considered a security risk. I don't know your deployment model or anything like that; I just figured I'd mention it. Hope that helps, -chris --------------------------------- Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.
