Question

I’m working on a Spring MVC 3 web application, I have some JSPs that works well with an exception, I’m having some problem displaying images -gif, jpeg and so on-. I tried these on the JSP side:

<img alt="TestDisplay" src="../images/XXX.gif" />
<img src="<c:url value=""/>images/XXX.gif" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<c:url value="/"/>images/XXX.gif" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<c:url value="../images/XXX.gif"/>" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<c:url value="/"/>WEB-INF/images/XXX.gif" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<c:url value="../WEB-INF/images/XXX.gif"/>" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/XXX.gif" alt="TestDisplay" />
<img src="images/XXX.gif" alt="TestDisplay"/>
<img src="<spring:url value="/images/XXX.gif" htmlEscape="true" />" align="right"     alt="TestDisplay"/>

But I’m not sure if the real problem comes from pages or anywhere. Any helpful answer will be rated.

Application Hierarchy Tree:

/webapp

//images

+XXX.gif

//WEB-INF

///images

+XXX.gif

Yes, I know images folder is duplicated, I’ve done it just to try any of the above options.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The correct usage is:

<img src="<c:url value="/images/XXX.gif" />" alt="TestDisplay"/>

Files in WEB-INF are not accessible to clients.