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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Larry Isaacs <La...@sas.com> on 2002/03/28 15:58:58 UTC

RE: Is there a way to stop Tomcat 4.0.1 from writing whole JSP's as a single lines? The Cause of Javascript Problems

This is actually a bug where Jasper is eating the '\r' line
terminators in violation of the spec.  This will be fixed in
the next build(s) of Tomcat 4.x.

Cheers,
Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry J Fundak [mailto:terry@tjsoftworks.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:53 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List; terry@tjsoftworks.com
> Subject: Re: Is there a way to stop Tomcat 4.0.1 from writing 
> whole JSP's as a single lines? The Cause of Javascript Problems
> 
> 
> Disregard my post...
> 
> The problem was that I forgot to change the <CR> to UNIX <LF> 
> when I moved
> to Mac OS X...
> 
> Sorry about that...
> 
> But also a reminder to other Mac OS X users... your files 
> need to have UNIX
> <LF> when to transfer them to the OS X server directory... 
> otherwise you
> will have difficulty with your Javascript...
> 
> Terry
> 
> Terry J Fundak wrote:
> 
> > Background:
> > I have switched from Tomcat 3.23/Servlet 1.31 on a SUN 
> server to Tomcat
> > 4.0.1 on Mac OS X.1.2.
> >
> > Everything SEEMED to be working fine (after quite a struggle with
> > configuration which has to do with documentation.)
> > (I know everyone has heard this before but I really need to 
> add my two
> > cent worth...)
> >
> > ...I thought everything worked fine BUT ... then I noticed 
> all my JSP
> > pages now have broken JAVASCRIPTs...
> >
> > I figured out the reason why by using a <editorial comment>really
> > great</editional comment> browser/editor OMNIWEB.
> >
> > The reason why is that with my installed version of Tomcat 
> 4.0.1 ,all
> > the JSPs are written out as a very long single line of
> > <html>....................</html>
> >
> > Now this didn't really bother me 'till I noticed that this 
> breaks the
> > JAVASCRIPT because browsers need the Javascript to be 
> enclosed into <!--
> > .......//--> blocks but in the form
> >
> > <!-- <CR>
> > Script functions here ....... <CR>
> > //--><CR>
> >
> > The important point is that there needs to be a <CR> carriage return
> > after the <!-- so that it is a seperate line
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to make Tomcat leave the 
> formating of a page
> > alone?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Terry
> 
> 
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