HTML Form action tag. Calling a parent relative URL

Question

I am trying to setup a HTML form (Actually .jsp in the context of a Spring-MVC Application).

Assuming I am at the URL:

example.com/first/second

and I want to call an action to

example.com/post

What should the Action look like?

I expected this to work:

<form:form method="post" action="../post">

But this doesn't work.

Are you asking how to reference the parent directory, or the "root" directory? That is, do you always want to refer to `example.com/post`, or would you want to call `example.com/first/post` if the local path was `example.com/first/second/third`? — Dwight DeGroff, Jan 16 '13 at 17:02
@antejan: I am using this .jsp in a Spring MVC-Application. Here you will need to set the forms like: — Robin, Jan 16 '13 at 17:08
@DwightDeGroff Acutally this won't matter in my case. But I would be interessted in both, if possible ;) — Robin, Jan 16 '13 at 17:08
Can you look at rendered html and give us what browser gets? — antejan, Jan 16 '13 at 17:11
As @antejan suggested: you say "this doesn't work". What are your exact symptoms? Does it work if you specify an absolute path? — Dwight DeGroff, Jan 16 '13 at 17:14
@antejan If you are still interessted, but I fixed the Problem as it seems. The ``, works correct, but I made a mistake in my App, so the data was handled the wrong way. Thank you very much for your contribution. — Robin, Jan 16 '13 at 17:17

score 22 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '13 at 17:16

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Relative path to post in the parent directory: ... action="../post"

Relative path to post in the root directory: ... action="/post"

answered Jan 16 '13 at 17:16

Dwight DeGroff

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