[Opensource] Question for any of you Servlet API Spec Gurus

[Michael Rimov]

Hey All,

I came across a very strange issue with exImageTag() tag that has to do 
with the servlet spec.  I'm using Tomcat 4.0.4 in development.  The code in 
question is:

         tmp = src();

         if (tmp != null) {
             results.append(" src=\"");
             results.append(response.encodeURL(tmp));
			   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             results.append("\"");
         }

The problem was that if I went to this page from an HTTP POST event, 
everything went well, but if I went there from an HTTP GET event, 
encodeURL() would throw an IllegalArgumentException.

[The URL in question was something like "../images/myimage.gif")

Now, if I remove encodeURL() everything works great... but if we have a 
dynamic src for the images, removing encodeURL will break that, correct?

Any suggestions as to what would be best for this situation would be 
greatly appreciated.

						-Mike