>The one thing you want to watch out for with relative redirects is that >they're converted by the servlet container to absolute URLs (this is in the >servlet spec). This is, by the letter of the HTTP spec, the correct thing >to do. Unfortunately, it can cause problems in deployments where an >proxying SSL accelerator is used. These are proxies that take HTTPS >requests and convert them to HTTP requests, handling all the SSL crypto >stuff in the process (this technique is used in some high-volume deployments >where SSL is required...the SSL stuff can be done in hardware).
I stand corrected. I was unaware the container converted relative urls to absolute urls. That being said, the rest of what I've said still holds true, just not for the reason that I thought it does. On Friday 05 September 2003 02:53 pm, Ben Souther wrote: > The easiest way to understand this is to think about how a browser sees a > relative link. Browsers don't know that they're dealing with a servlet > app. A sendRedirect simply puts the following header in the response: > "Location: url" > > Let's take the following url: > http://www.mydomain.com/cal/index.jsp > > If your page "index.jsp" resides in the context root "cal" and you want to > send a redirect to "page2.jsp" you would use "page2.jsp". This tells the > browser to look in the current directory for a file name "page2.jsp". > > If you enter "/page2.jsp" The browser will go to what IT considers to be > the webroot; the first directory after the base url > "http://www.mydomain.com/"; and look for "page2.jsp". > > If you're several directories below the context root and need to redirect > to a higher directory, you're better off prepending one "../" to the url > for each directory that you need to climb than to try to list the context > root and work your way down (" /cal/page.jsp"). This way, you won't need> > to fish through your code and change the urls if the application name "cal" > changes. But that's just my opinion. > > -Ben > > On Friday 05 September 2003 02:07 pm, Charlie Toohey wrote: > > The Servlet API doc for the sendRedirect method states: > > > > "....If the location is relative with a leading '/' the container > > interprets it as relative to the servlet container root....." > > > > I've looked thru the Servlet Spec and can not quite figure out what they > > mean by servlet container root ? Is this a typo and supposed to be > > servlet context root ? Or is there really such a thing as the servlet > > container root, and if so, what is it ? > > > > e.g. if my context path is "/cal" and I want to redirect to > > "/cal/form/index.jsp", what would I use in sendRedirect ? > > (I know I could do a forward, but want to redirect in my situation) > > > > Thanks, > > Charlie > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ben Souther F.W. Davison & Company, Inc. REGISTER NOW FOR THE SCORPEO USER CONFERENCE! September 18-19, 2003 in Boston/Brookline, MA Additional Training Sessions held September 17, 2003 More info >> http://www.fwdco.com/services/Uconf03/default.shtm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
