Filters and Forwarding

2003-06-18 Thread Chisholm, Paul
Hi, I have a servlet X that forwards to a servlet Y. When Y is requested directly there is a filter specified in web.xml that does some preprocessing of the request. When X forwards to Y I want the request to pass through the filter, but it seems to go straight to Y. Associating the filter with X

Re: Filters and Forwarding

2003-06-18 Thread Tim Funk
Filters apply only to the incoming request. Filters are not invoked on subsequent forward() or include(). But the 2.4 spec will allow filters to be run on forward() (and I think include, read the spec to verify) -Tim Chisholm, Paul wrote: Hi, I have a servlet X that forwards to a servlet Y.

Re: Filters and Forwarding

2003-06-18 Thread Antonio Fiol BonnĂ­n
If you are allowing incoming requests to Y, you can make X to sendRedirect() to Y. A bit slower, as it needs the client to access Y himself, but depending on your needs, it may work. Antonio Fiol Chisholm, Paul wrote: Hi, I have a servlet X that forwards to a servlet Y. When Y is requested