Thank you very much for your time. This fixed the problem. I have only one question. How does the browser determine which parts of the URL to strip?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Roman Sokolyuk wrote: > ... > > >> header2.jsp >> ------------------ >> <link href="../../CSS/style1.css" rel="stylesheet" >> type="text/css"/> >> > ... > >> >> The CSS directory is under the app context, alongside WEB-INF. >> >> Am I specifying the path to the CSS correctly? Anyone can suggest what >> else >> I may be doing wrong? >> >> > I am not a JSP specialist, but I would guess that your problem is indeed > with the above. > > You have to think from the point of view of /the browser/, because it is > the browser who will interpret this, relatively to where /it/ thinks it has > got the original page from. > > In other words, suppose that the user's browser originally gets this page > from a link like : > http://somehost/myapp/somedir?somequery > > Then, to obtain the above stylesheet, the browser is going to : > - strip the ? and whatever is after it (if anything) > - strip the last element of the path (somedir), leaving > http://somehost/myapp/ > - add the relative reference (../../CSS/style1.css) to that, resulting in > http://somehost/myapp/../../CSS/style1.css > > Now, does that point to the right place on the server ? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
