On Fri, 30 May 2003, Devang Shah wrote: > I think forward() forwards request to the specified resource on the > current server only. However you can use > HttpServletResponse.redirect to redirect response to another > server. You can also post to another URL from within HTML/JSP page.
Just to clarify, the question stated "outside the current *context*" [emphasis added], not "outside the current server". I believe someone posted an solution using RequestDispatcher -- I'm not 100% sure that will work, but I think it will. Certainly easy to try. > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John > C Cartwright > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] forward request to URL outside current > context > > > Hello All, > > is there a way that I can use the > RequestDispatcher.forward(request,response) method to forward a request > to an URL outside the current context? > > Thanks! > > -- john > > ===================================================== > John Cartwright > Associate Scientist > Geospatial Data Services Group > CIRES, National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA > (303) 497-6284 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===================================================== > Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
