Lyallex wrote: > 2009/6/11 Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com>: >>> From: Hassan Schroeder [mailto:hassan.schroe...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: Re: Loading dynamically created content: An old chestnut but >>> still a problem. >>> >>> Then I copied a random example.gif image to the ROOT directory >>> and entered http://localhost:8080/example.gif in my address bar. >>> And there it is in my browser. >> Just to confirm that there's no long-term caching, I extended the above by >> starting Tomcat, loaded the home page in Firefox, replaced tomcat.gif by one >> of Bill the Cat with the name tomcat.gif, refreshed the page with F5, and >> got the revised, much uglier image in the upper left corner. >> >> - Chuck > > OK, all very nice ... I just tried this. The server was running and my > application was up and working. > I copied an image into the ROOT directory then tried to access it like > so http://localhost/main.jpg and got a 404 not found. > > I stopped and restarted the server (very important this) and tried the > same request again and the image loaded. > > I'm not imagining this. It is a fact. On my setup (tomcat 6.0.16. > jdk1.6.0_03, Windows XP SP 2) I cannot load images that have been > written to disk after the server starts ... sorry if this offends you > in some way, it's driving ME nuts especially as you all seem to have > no trouble with this. I'm almost tempted to load the app onto the live > server and see if it works there. .. no, that way lies madness.
This all all a expected side-effect of using the anti resource locking features. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
