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Subject: RE: SOLVED: How to get the context path for a web application?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:57:40 -0400
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Thread-Topic: SOLVED: How to get the context path for a web application?
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>,
        "David Wall" <d.wall@computer.org>


H=
i,

>True and it's mostly not a big issue.  However, is it possible for a
>ServletContext to reference one context path and the Request objects =
to
>have
>a different one?  Most webapps only operate under a single context pa=
th
>(don't they?), so having it at initialization would be nice too.  Oh
>well...
>With the path, I could build URLs for email and other logging info at=

>initialization that cannot be done dynamically without knowing the
>host/port/contextpath.

All webapps operate under one context path: that's a one to one
relationship at the core of the Servlet Specification.

Note that one reason the ServletContext object does have a context pat=
h
is that the latter is an HTTP-specific concept.  (One has to be very
careful here as these terms are used interchangeably).  The
ServletContext and ServletConfig objects are explicitly
protocol-independent.  Specifically, what the ServletContext JavaDoc
calls "uripath" may or may not correspond to a path on the hard-drive
and in the Request#getContextPath method.

There's more to this but I have to run to a meeting ;)

Yoav Shapira


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