Newbie - A question about RequestDispatcher

Question

I have a problem when using a RequestDispatcher, some help would be really appreciated :)
I have an HTML page with some tags like:
<A CLASS="x" HREF="http://localhost/servlet/testPackage.dbTestServlet?myOption=opt1">Products</A>
That HTML page is located in:
c:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\
And the servlet is in:
c:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\classes\testPackage\
In the servlet, in the doGet function I check for the "myOption" parameter...
option = request.getParameter("myOption");
if(option.equals("opt1")){
goToProducts(request, response);
then, the goToProducts function looks like:
String loggedUsername;
String myURL;
response.setContentType("text/html");          
HttpSession mySession = request.getSession(true);
loggedUsername = (String)mySession.getValue("username");
if(loggedUsername == null) myURL = "/loginpage.jsp";
else myURL = "/option1.html";
goToPage(myURL, request, response);
and the goToPage function looks like:
RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(url);
rd.forward(request, response);
Apparently it works because when I click on the link on the first page it actually redirects me to the loginpage.jsp which is located in:
c:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\loginpage.jsp
BUT it doesn't display correctly, I have some tags in that jsp page like:
<IMG SRC="./images/top.jpg">
(The images directory is c:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\images\ and the next.html file is in c:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\next.html)
And when I place the mouse over the link, I can see on the IE status bar: http://localhost/servlet/next.html and NOT http://localhost/next.html
So it seems that even if I can access loginpage.jsp via http://localhost/loginpage.jsp, it's trying to access the images and css links from within http://localhost/servlet/ and not from http://localhost/
I even tried to change the myURL variable in the goToProducts function:
myURL = "/../loginpage.jsp";
But that way I get a "resource not available" error in Tomcat.
Thanks in advance,
Joel.

Answer 1

one more note that might help
when you use the servletcontext to get the request dispatcher, then that url can't be relative but must start with a /.
why don't you try to use the request object to get the request dispatcher, i guess it will work i.e
in your method goToPage
RequestDispatcher rd = requet.getRequestDispatcher(url);
rd.forward(request, response);
i wish it helps