Forwards are taken care of on the server side, whereas sendRedirect sends a
redirect (!) response to the client, telling it to make a request for a new
URL, so it requires an extra client-server round trip to complete.
--
Martin Cooper
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From: "Shawn Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: difference between sendRedirect and forward
> What's the difference between sendRedirect and requestDispatcher.forward
(or
> <jsp:forward>)?
>
> Is it getHeader("referer") will return different values?
>
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