Alex Blewitt wrote:
> I've just written a Servlet to send a redirect (not a
> forward/include) using the HTTP REDIRECT protocol, which used to be
> possible using HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect():
>
> res.sendRedirect("http://www.home.page.com/help/");
>
> instead, it comes out as a RequestDispatcher 'forward' request, and I get
> a message like:
>
> 404 /AppContext/www.home.page.com/help/ FILE NOT FOUND
>
> Presumably, the reason for putting this in place was to optimise the
> sendRedirects to use RequestDispatcher instead; however, it does break the
> existing spec if this is done with a full URL.
>
No version of Tomcat has ever converted a sendRedirect() call into a
RequestDispatcher.forward() call. Are you sure that you are executing a
"return" statement after the res.sendRedirect()?
>
> Has this been unfixed in Tomcat 4?
>
> Alex.
>
Craig McClanahan
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