Hm, interesting, compability is a reason for us promoting the relative way
too, can you explain/elaborate?
Technically if you have a 2.1 or below app it's "always bound to root" so
you'd have for instance
redirect("/thepage.jsp"). Now, with 2.2 this becomes a web-app, now you bind
it to /theapp - what do you want to happen?
A small note: Relative paths werent allowed at all in 2.1 and before really
but a lot of servers broke that spec (explicit spec) and passed it thru
anyways so there might be apps out there using it. Can you explain how
redirect(request.getContextPath() + "/thepage.jsp") would be "friendlier" to
2.1? As for servers acting the same we definitely agree, but the servlet
spec is to live for a long while (or so we hope at least) so consistency is
important too.
Any input is appreciated, have a nice day!
/Magnus Stenman, the Orion team
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Sell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: sendRedirect in orion and jrun
> hello,
>
> I have one last comment regarding the sendRedirect issue:
>
> In fact, I tend to changing my mind on this one. The behavior of JRun &
> Tomcat, even though it is out of line with many other API methods which
take
> paths starting with "/" as context-relative, doea make sense because it
> keeps upward compatibility for pre-servlet-2.2 apps. And thats an
important
> issue, too. As well as that all servers behave equally...
>
> regards,
>
> >Subject: Re: sendRedirect in orion and jrun
> >
> >
> >> >First let me start by saying that this is not a bug...nor a
> >> >misinterpretation of the specs.
> >>
> >> the specs are so unclear on this one that it is hard to misinterpret
them
> >> anyway. Magnus already conceded that the issue was officially still "up
> in
> >> the air". But I agree (as I said previously) that context-relative
makes
> >the
> >> most sense, for the very reasons that you cite. My current problem is
how
> >to
> >> write server-portable code (and deployment descriptors!) which in the
> case
> >> of sendRedirect leads me to having to use hard-coded absolute URLs, as
> you
> >> describe.
> >>
> >> >Servlets 2.2 specification introduces the
> >> >concept of "web-app" contexts.
> >>
> >> well, I guess that is not news anymore.. ;-)
> >>
> >> > String requestURL=HttpUtils.getRequestURL(request).toString();
> >> > String absolute=requestURL.substring(0,
> >> > requestURL.length()-request.getRequestURI().length());
> >> > response.sendRedirect(absolute+"/myothercontext/index.jsp");
> >>
> >> thanks. I was just going to roll up my sleeves to write that one. Funny
> >> though that I have to do this to redirect into my own context (due to
> >server
> >> incompatibility, not orions fault).
> >>
> >
>
