IE6 acting weird with relative include of js and css files having ..in the beginning

[Imran Sadat]

Hi,

I have the following directory structure. A sample of the files is
given below.


Home/
submit.do
home.html
Home/xslt
tranform1.xsl


Home/css
transform1.css
style.css


Home/js
myjs.js


Home/jsp
xslout.jsp


Now what happens is when a person chooses something on the home.html
page, a request is passed to submit.do. The result of submit.do is a
redirection to xslout.jsp which is in the Home/jsp folder. This jsp
returns an xml. This xml refers to transform1.xsl for transformation.
This xsl includes the javascript using the code in the head section
of
the output html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/myjs.js"></script>


On some computers the request sent by IE to the server is for a file
js/myjs.js


while on others it is correctly sent as
Home/js/myjs.js


This is really weird because on the 8 computers I tried this, 4 sent
the correct request and 4 did not.


Has anyone encountered this problem before?


I know I can get the page to work by changing the src to src="/Home/
js/
myjs.js" but any ideas how to get the above code to work.


The same thing happens if I include a css in the file.


Your help is really appreciated.


Thanks


Imran

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:19:26
GMT Imran Sadat scribed:

Hi,

I have the following directory structure. A sample of the files is
given below.


Home/
submit.do
home.html
Home/xslt
tranform1.xsl


Home/css
transform1.css
style.css


Home/js
myjs.js


Home/jsp
xslout.jsp


Now what happens is when a person chooses something on the home.html
page, a request is passed to submit.do. The result of submit.do is a
redirection to xslout.jsp which is in the Home/jsp folder. This jsp
returns an xml. This xml refers to transform1.xsl for transformation.
This xsl includes the javascript using the code in the head section
of
the output html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/myjs.js"></script>


On some computers the request sent by IE to the server is for a file
js/myjs.js


while on others it is correctly sent as
Home/js/myjs.js


This is really weird because on the 8 computers I tried this, 4 sent
the correct request and 4 did not.


Has anyone encountered this problem before?


I know I can get the page to work by changing the src to src="/Home/
js/
myjs.js" but any ideas how to get the above code to work.


The same thing happens if I include a css in the file.


Your help is really appreciated.

According to what you've shown, the correct address is
src="js/myjs.js"

 

[Imran]

Wouldn't that access

Home/xslt/js/myjs.js since the link would be relative to xslt folder.

Regards
Imran

 

[Neredbojias]

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:05:30
GMT Imran scribed:

Wouldn't that access

Home/xslt/js/myjs.js since the link would be relative to xslt folder.

Regards
Imran

The line:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/myjs.js"></script>

isn't executed until home.html is on the client computer. Therefore it
has to be relative to the location of home.html.

 

[Imran]

The home.html does not include the js. It is the xslt page that has
the script tag. So it should be relative to that. As I said it works
on many PCs and doesn't work on some. So if the script tag was wrong,
it wouldn't work anywhere...wouldn't you agree?