Oh yeah, that's right, I overlooked that fact. You are right. It works when it was a sendredirect, not forward. In that case, she can either use sendredirect, or stay with request setAttribute (I wonder why she doesn't want to use this method). > -----Original Message----- > From: erik morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to get URL of the original servlet after > forwarding to > aJSP page? > > > Actually I don't think that this will work. Here is why: > The client makes an HTTP request to the servlet which then uses the > RequestDispatcher to Forward the request to the jsp page. > Because he is using the > request dispatcher and not response.sendRedirect() there is > no response back to the > client from the servlet. This means that the header that the > jsp has access to is > the same header that the servlet had access to (only one HTTP > request means only > one HTTP header). Thus request.getHeader("referer") will > return the URI of the page > that referred the client to the servlet. > > Why don't you want to set an attribute? > > Shawn Zhu wrote: > > > use request.getHeader() > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Thai Thanh Ha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:52 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: How to get URL of the original servlet after > forwarding to a > > > JSP page? > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have forwarded from a servlet to a JSP page using > > > RequestDispatcher.forward(). In the JSP page, I want to get > > > the original URL > > > (the URL of the servlet). And I don't want to use > > > request.setAttribute() in > > > the servlet. Is there any way to get the servlet's URL from > > > JSP page? I have > > > tried using request.getRequestURI() but it returns the URI of > > > JSP page. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > Thai > > > > > > ============================================================== > > > ============= > > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > > > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set > > > JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > > > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > > > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets > > > > > > > > ============================================================== > ============= > > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set > JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets > > -- > Erik I Morton > Software Developer > ------------------ > CommerceHub > http://www.commercehub.com > 518-886-0704 > 21 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065 > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: > "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set > JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP > http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
