get absolute URL with EL

Question

How can I build up an absolute URL using no scriptlets (only EL) to the current server, using the current protocol, port, application etc?

Answer 1

You can get the base URL up to with the context root with help of JSTL as follows:

<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
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