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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Mark Meytin <ma...@meytin.com> on 2002/08/01 21:23:21 UTC
Using relative actions in html:form attributes...
Hello!
I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo. I would like to specify relative
actions in the html:form tags. The problem now is that html:form
tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
a call to request.getContextPath(). Well, in my case this is not
working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.
Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
ProxyPass /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
ProxyPassReverse /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do. But because
html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
result.
Any ideas will be much appreciated! It there a way to handle this
type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
Tomcat ContextPath URLs? I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
-M-
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Re: Using relative actions in html:form attributes...
Posted by Mark Meytin <ma...@meytin.com>.
Hmm, interesting... I was under impression that Struts
enforces the fact that form element tags must be inside
html:form tags. Well, after your suggestion, I tried putting
them inside the regular form tags, and it did not complain.
So, at least in this version of Struts (1.0.2) it seems
to work. I also had to add "name" attribute to every single
element of the form, otherwise I was getting the
following exception:
javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find bean org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BEAN in scope null
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.lookup(RequestUtils.java:493)
at org.apache.struts.taglib.html.BaseFieldTag.doStartTag(BaseFieldTag.java:188)
....
which is understandable, since without that attribute and without
enclosing html:form, elements have no idea where to find their
values. Well, at least now I have a workaround, albeit not a
very clean one, in my opinion. I still don't understand why
not let html:form use relative actions, perhaps I'm missing
something here. In any case, thanks, Troy - your input
is much appreciated!
-M-
Troy Hart wrote:
> I'm not so sure that is correct. It seems like I have done this before,
> but I don't recall for sure. I am in the middle of some other stuff and
> don't have time to test it now, but you should give it a quick try. Or,
> maybe you already have?
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Troy
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 15:05, Mark Meytin wrote:
>
>>That would work of course, but as a result I won't be
>>able to use other html tags that go inside html:form,
>>such as html:select, html:text, etc - and therefore
>>abandon a large chunk of functionality provided by Struts.
>>I'm kinda curious why Struts developers would not
>>simply allow relative action elements, perhaps if a
>>special attribute was present. Perhaps this is
>>a question for dev-list.
>>
>>Thanks for your answer,
>>-M-
>>
>>Troy Hart wrote:
>>
>>
>>>One very simple thing to do is forgo the use of <html:form> in favor of
>>>the plain html <form>.
>>>
>>>Troy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:23, Mark Meytin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello!
>>>>
>>>>I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
>>>>Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo. I would like to specify relative
>>>>actions in the html:form tags. The problem now is that html:form
>>>>tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
>>>>if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
>>>>resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
>>>>tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
>>>>a call to request.getContextPath(). Well, in my case this is not
>>>>working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
>>>>URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.
>>>>Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
>>>>directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
>>>>
>>>>ProxyPass /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
>>>>ProxyPassReverse /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
>>>>
>>>>I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
>>>>and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do. But because
>>>>html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
>>>>forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
>>>>result.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas will be much appreciated! It there a way to handle this
>>>>type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
>>>>Tomcat ContextPath URLs? I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
>>>>
>>>>-M-
>>>>
>>>>
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Re: Using relative actions in html:form attributes...
Posted by Troy Hart <th...@part.net>.
I'm not so sure that is correct. It seems like I have done this before,
but I don't recall for sure. I am in the middle of some other stuff and
don't have time to test it now, but you should give it a quick try. Or,
maybe you already have?
Good Luck,
Troy
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 15:05, Mark Meytin wrote:
> That would work of course, but as a result I won't be
> able to use other html tags that go inside html:form,
> such as html:select, html:text, etc - and therefore
> abandon a large chunk of functionality provided by Struts.
> I'm kinda curious why Struts developers would not
> simply allow relative action elements, perhaps if a
> special attribute was present. Perhaps this is
> a question for dev-list.
>
> Thanks for your answer,
> -M-
>
> Troy Hart wrote:
>
> > One very simple thing to do is forgo the use of <html:form> in favor of
> > the plain html <form>.
> >
> > Troy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:23, Mark Meytin wrote:
> >
> >>Hello!
> >>
> >>I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
> >>Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo. I would like to specify relative
> >>actions in the html:form tags. The problem now is that html:form
> >>tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
> >>if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
> >>resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
> >>tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
> >>a call to request.getContextPath(). Well, in my case this is not
> >>working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
> >>URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.
> >>Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
> >>directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
> >>
> >>ProxyPass /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
> >>ProxyPassReverse /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
> >>
> >>I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
> >>and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do. But because
> >>html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
> >>forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
> >>result.
> >>
> >>Any ideas will be much appreciated! It there a way to handle this
> >>type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
> >>Tomcat ContextPath URLs? I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
> >>
> >>-M-
> >>
> >>
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Re: Using relative actions in html:form attributes...
Posted by Mark Meytin <ma...@meytin.com>.
That would work of course, but as a result I won't be
able to use other html tags that go inside html:form,
such as html:select, html:text, etc - and therefore
abandon a large chunk of functionality provided by Struts.
I'm kinda curious why Struts developers would not
simply allow relative action elements, perhaps if a
special attribute was present. Perhaps this is
a question for dev-list.
Thanks for your answer,
-M-
Troy Hart wrote:
> One very simple thing to do is forgo the use of <html:form> in favor of
> the plain html <form>.
>
> Troy
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:23, Mark Meytin wrote:
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
>>Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo. I would like to specify relative
>>actions in the html:form tags. The problem now is that html:form
>>tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
>>if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
>>resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
>>tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
>>a call to request.getContextPath(). Well, in my case this is not
>>working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
>>URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.
>>Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
>>directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
>>
>>ProxyPass /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
>>ProxyPassReverse /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
>>
>>I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
>>and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do. But because
>>html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
>>forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
>>result.
>>
>>Any ideas will be much appreciated! It there a way to handle this
>>type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
>>Tomcat ContextPath URLs? I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
>>
>>-M-
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Using relative actions in html:form attributes...
Posted by Troy Hart <th...@part.net>.
One very simple thing to do is forgo the use of <html:form> in favor of
the plain html <form>.
Troy
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 13:23, Mark Meytin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have the following interesting problem with Struts 1.0.2 running under
> Tomcat 4.0.4 and Apache combo. I would like to specify relative
> actions in the html:form tags. The problem now is that html:form
> tag converts action attributes into absolute paths, for example
> if I specify action="search.do" in html:form tags, the
> resulting HTML page contains <form action="/myapp/search.do">
> tag, where it gets /myapp prefix by always unconditionally making
> a call to request.getContextPath(). Well, in my case this is not
> working, because due to the use of Apache ProxyPass statements,
> URLs of the pages do not correspond to Tomcat ContextPaths.
> Specifically, my JSP files are located in /webapps/superapp/subdir
> directory, through the magic of the following ProxyPass statements:
>
> ProxyPass /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
> ProxyPassReverse /subdir http://localhost:8080/superapp/subdir
>
> I can access my pages by going to http://<myhost>/subdir/page.jsp
> and my actions as http://<myhost>/subdir/action.do. But because
> html:form tag generates a link to /superapp/subdir/action.do my
> forms cannot access the action at all, resulting in Apache's 404
> result.
>
> Any ideas will be much appreciated! It there a way to handle this
> type of situation, when Apache URLs do not correspond to
> Tomcat ContextPath URLs? I'm getting a bit desperate here ;^)
>
> -M-
>
>
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