Re: Servlet image problem

From:
"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
28 Jan 2007 23:52:02 -0800
Message-ID:
<1170057122.714349.119720@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 28, 10:56 pm, "Giox" <giovanniparod...@yahoo.it> wrote:

Hello everybody,
I would like to use a working servlet that generates png images as
source for a <img> tag.
When I access the servlet page generating the png image I can see the
correct image.
The address that I access is

       https://localhost:8443/esempio_portale/graphPage

where /graphPage is servlet name mapped in web.xml file.
When trying to use such a servlet as src element of a img tag in a jsp
file, I have to use the following syntax:

        <img src="https://localhost:8443/esempio_portale/graphPage"
alt="Impossibile visualizzare l'immagine" />

How can I avoid the full specification of the servlet path? I tried to
write

        <img src="/graphPage" alt="Impossibile visualizzare l'immagine" />

with web.xml as follows:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>graphPage</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.biz.graph.graphPage</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>graphPage</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/graphPage</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

but it doesn't work. How can I obtain the desired result?
I'm using Tomcat 5.5
Giovanni


Well, it looks like path in the URL is /esempio_portale/graphPage, so
you should use src="/esempio_portale/graphPage" /> instead of src="/
graphPage"

Hope this helps,
Daniel.

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