File Redirection in Tomcat 5.5
I've got an application that reads from a collection of data in a
directory outside the WEB-INF directory. I am able to read the data
and use it to create an html stream to send to the user. This part is
working well.
Now, I'd like to include graphics (jpegs, for example), and when I
build <img> elements that have links to the real location of the
graphic (with file:///c:/wherever/my.jpg) they work in IE and fail in
Firefox. My thought is that FireFox is asking Tomcat for the graphics
file and it is trying to find it relative to the WEB-INF directory,
and failing.
Is there a way to spacify a mapping capability for images in Tomcat?
Is there a way to have some servlet code to receive requests for an
image, locate the file and pass it to the browser?
Thanks.
Dave Patterson
