Hello every-one i am trying to have a servlet forward to a jsp page after using the jakarta.common.uploadc utility to upload a file into tomcat. i have noticed the following behavior; if i request the forward operarion without performing the upload function the forward is executed. if i allow trhe file to be uploaded (ei writen to HD) the forward is not executed . Bellow i am attaching the relevant lines of code do you have any sugestions how i can perform this task ? thank you in advance Billy ----- start of code --- RequestDispatcher page = null; // upload the file and return the filename for further use String fn= appacheImpl(request, response); page = this.getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(CONTINUE_FORM); request.setAttribute("zipFile",new String (fn)); page.forward(request,response); log.info("****** CHECK POINT 1 ******"); } catch (Exception fue) { ----- end of code ---