October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
12h 35m
English
One of the many responsibilities of the Web server is to map URL requests to physical resources on the Web server: static files, scripted dynamic files, or compiled components and APIs. The simplest systems have a one-to-one mapping between a URL and a physical file, with the URL context mapping directly to a file system directory and all the directory paths in the location—text between the slashes, /—mirrored in the subdirectories of the file system.
Figure 12-8 shows a URL hierarchy; the root identifies the protocol (http:), the name of the host (localhost), and the application context (appcontext). Each of the requestable resources—HTML, JSP, GIF encoded files—is shown with the fully qualified URL. Note ...
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