On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:01:42AM +0100, Martin Haase-Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this is not perfectly the right list for my topic, but before 
> subscribing to another for just one question... forgive me if I'm going 
> to be boring. Even more, because my question is rather philosophical.
> 
> If you consider JSPs, there is a tag called <jsp:forward page="..." />. 
> My question is: how do I have to understand 'forward'? The java 
> documentation isn't that verbose, and I can imagine two possible meanings:
> 1. Forwarding is some sort of an internal redirect to the servlet engine 
> which the browser will not be informed of.  From this point of view 
> forwarding will be nearly the same as a dynamic include.

*ding* correct!  Basically it says, dump any buffered output and start
a new request.

> 2. Forwarding is the same as a redirect.

nope, see above.

> Maybe a superfluous question for some of you, for me it isn't actually. 
> So, if anyone knows an answer - or knows the number of the RFC I'll find 
> the information: you're welcome!

You'll find that $r->internal_redirect() is the mod_perl equivalent.
Also Apache::ASP containts the Transfer() method which accomplishes
the same thing.

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