you may try request.getHeader("Referer");

Shiraz Wasim Zaidi wrote:

> >I assume that the above method call doesnot have a uniform  behaviour.
> It has a uniform behaviour.
>
> > Could you guys throw some light on the above method.
> > It just keeps returning null.
> The Referer header field tells the address of the resource from which the
> request-uri
> was obtained. So you wont get a referer field value for a resource that you
> typed in
> manually, which i think u are doing. Try having a hyper link to ur
> jsp/servlet from
> a HTML page. Now if u check referer value u should get address of the HTML
> page ,
> which is its referer.
>
> -Shiraz

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