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Asked: 2026-06-12T09:19:05+00:00

I have a servlet which returns as response an html page that also includes

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I have a servlet which returns as response an html page that also includes pictures. I have those pictures stored on the file system in the Pictures folder (path: /home/andrei/Pictures).
I currently have there just one photo(name: eu.jpg ) but i will add more.

So the point is that in the html code i somewhere have this: <img src="/home/andrei/Pictures/eu.jpg" alt="pic" > . But when i get the html page it doesnt display neither the photo nor the "pic" text from alt(not sure if this is normal...). I read that it may be due to the path i gave in src but i dont know exactly what to give.

So what path should i give to the src?

And is it normal not displaying the alt text
because i knew that when it cannot load the pic it shows that text.

Additional information:
IDE : Eclipse Juno
SO : Linux
Server: Tomcat 7.0

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  1. Editorial Team

    When you send back the HTML response, the client’s browser will render the document and then, send requests for additional resources in order to show the HTML document fully. That includes the images, so Tomcat must be able to serve them. If you can’t put them in a folder inside WebContent from the beginning, the servlet must do the move and create the document specifying the “public route”.

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