Servlets, HTML and GIFs

[Randall Stevens]

I have a servlet that gets an HTML file that has some GIFs in it. The problem I am encountering is the page is retrieved, but the GIFs are not displaying.
The html page is in jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4/webapps/ROOT
The GIFs are currently in jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4/webapps/ROOT
The html references the GIFs similiar to <img src="myLogo.gif">
On my desktop the images show, however when deployed on the server the images do not show. How can this be corrected?
Randall

[Bear Bibeault]

Since you are specifying a relative reference to the images, the browser is trying to find them in the same folder as the page. However, since your page is emitted by a servlet, there really is no "page".
What the broser is doing is to use the URL of the servlet (probably a servlet mapping, no?) as the base for your relative references.
You will need to either use server-relative href's for your images, or use the <base> tag to provide a relative base for the images.
bear

[Mike Curwen]

This discussion in Apache/Tomcat talks about the same thing (after post #3) , with regard to JSPs. But the general idea is the same as this discussion.