Re: [OT?] What exactly is forwarding?
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. -- Paul Lindner[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | | | | | | | mod_perl Developer's Cookbook http://www.modperlcookbook.org/ Human Rights Declaration http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/
Re: [OT?] What exactly is forwarding?
Paul Lindner wrote: You'll find that $r-internal_redirect() is the mod_perl equivalent. Also Apache::ASP containts the Transfer() method which accomplishes the same thing. Personally, I always thought this was sort of a strange part of JSP. It really shows the page-centric thinking behind it. Doing a forward is essentially a GOTO statement for JSP. When I write mod_perl apps, I never feel the need for that sort of thing, with so many better ways to accomplish things (OO, method calls, dispatch tables, template includes). - Perrin
Re: [OT?] What exactly is forwarding?
Thank you both. I thought so: it is one of these typical JSP features - but now it works in perl, too ;) Cheers Martin Perrin Harkins wrote: Paul Lindner wrote: You'll find that $r-internal_redirect() is the mod_perl equivalent. Also Apache::ASP containts the Transfer() method which accomplishes the same thing. Personally, I always thought this was sort of a strange part of JSP. It really shows the page-centric thinking behind it. Doing a forward is essentially a GOTO statement for JSP. When I write mod_perl apps, I never feel the need for that sort of thing, with so many better ways to accomplish things (OO, method calls, dispatch tables, template includes). - Perrin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
