Images are not displayed on IE,firefox and chrome..

**jitu** · 12-26-2011, 06:25 PM

I am using jsp and servlet for my application and using tomcat server to run the app...on running the application images are not displayed on
the jsp and html..so i tried to run the html pages alone on IE..their images are working fine...i am not getting what is the problem..is any configuration is requird for loading images through server???
below is the sample code i am using for the testing purpose of this issue...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body background="../images/background.gif">

</body>
</html>

**Norm** · 12-26-2011, 09:03 PM

Have you tried changing path to the image by removing the ../ and moving the image to the referred to location?

Can you look at the contents of the HTTP GET the browser sends when it asks for the image file?

**jitu** · 12-27-2011, 04:59 PM

yes...did all the changes..nothing works..
and how to get the content of HTTP GET ????

**Norm** · 12-27-2011, 05:44 PM

how to get the content of HTTP GET

There are plugins that will show it.
Also a proxy server with tracing would show it.
And there are other debug tools (I don't remember their name) that will show it.

**ozzyman** · 12-27-2011, 07:58 PM

Servlet may not have access permission to the folder above it. Try putting the image in the same folder as the JSP or a folder from there.

**jitu** · 12-28-2011, 04:53 PM

Thanks bro...ur idea works..
and
norm thanks for your help.

**ozzyman** · 12-29-2011, 04:18 AM

No problem. Apparently its not safe for a Java Servlet host to allow the users servlets to access the folders above it because that would allow a malicious user to use it to make changes to the server computer.