[devtalk] ssi virtual - site check please
joseph harris
joseph-harris at topmail.co.uk
Fri Oct 2 20:50:57 BST 2009
From: "David Precious"
> On Friday 02 October 2009 15:49:43 joseph harris wrote:
>> I have the usual
>> folder[home page plus] and sub folders. In a sub folder I am calling a file
>> headerxxx.txt. In that file I am calling an image from the images folder,
>> thus:
>>
>> SRC="<!--#include virtual="../images/pound_page_head3.gif"-->"
>>
>> And many other thuses! with and without include, wit h and without /images/
>> and / and ../ and ../../. I am stumped as to which will call it!
>
> Sorry, you what?
>
> SSI files can be used to include other text files, or certain pieces of
> information; you don't use them to try to insert the contents of an image file
> in the src attribute of an image tag!
>
> Images get requested seperately by the browser.
>
That's what I thought, but I've tried all the variants I can think of, and I'm still not getting a result. The SSI was a desperate hope. So what should work?
Joseph
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