Looks like roll your own then! A few thoughts on the matter - maybe someone could add to them?
It should be easy to map requests for images to a servlet, which can then find the appropriate image file wherever it might be ( within or outside the server ). Like this in the web.xml file: <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>servletName</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> ? But how is the image then added to the reponse? Another servlet ( behind the scenes - I am actually using the Spring framework ) is handling the request/response. Can the request/response be passed to the image-providing servlet for the images within a page to be written to the reponse in this kind of way: // This method is called by the servlet container to process a GET request. public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws IOException { // Get the absolute path of the image ServletContext sc = getServletContext(); String filename = sc.getRealPath("image.gif"); // Get the MIME type of the image String mimeType = sc.getMimeType(filename); if (mimeType == null) { sc.log("Could not get MIME type of "+filename); resp.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR); return; } // Set content type resp.setContentType(mimeType); // Set content size File file = new File(filename); resp.setContentLength((int)file.length()); // Open the file and output streams FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file); OutputStream out = resp.getOutputStream(); // Copy the contents of the file to the output stream byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int count = 0; while ((count = in.read(buf)) >= 0) { out.write(buf, 0, count); } in.close(); out.close(); } ( from http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.servlet/GetImage.html ) I'm off for a walk to mull it over - any suggestions while I am out and before I get to experimenting will be most welcome. Thanks, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]