RE: relative path

No. ".." tells it to go up one directory "/" goes back to the server
root. "." is the current directory (this made your link look like
/mysite/shoppingcart/shopping/home.jsp). It's basically the same rules
for moving around the directory tree that you have in a Unix file
system. You can do some wacky stuff with ".."'s (and there were plenty
of attacks doing this that caused stuff you shouldn't have been able to
get to to be displayed) but the best advice is to keep your URI's (this
is the URL less the server name and port) expressed in a simple format
in your link tags.

Matt 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces+matt.haas=thomson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:web400-bounces+matt.haas=thomson.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:28 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] relative path

my problem might be because I only used one "." on the href
(./shopping/home.jsp).  Will try two ".." and see what happen. 

does two .. telling the server to go all the way back the the domain?
 Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Haas, Matt
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:18 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] relative path


/mysite/shopping/home.jsp or ../shopping/home.jsp will work. How URL's
work is not changed by any web technology. How you construct links that
end up in the HTML is a different story and some packages (like Struts)
have tools to make this a little easier.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:08 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] relative path

what relative path do I need to specify to make it go all the way back
to domain?  
 
For example: 
If I'm in URL: http://localhost:8080/mysite/shoppingcart/view.jsp and in
this jsp I have a link that I want to href back to say ,
http://localhost:8080/mysite/shopping/home.jsp.  What do I need to
specify in href=?