You can't forward across contexts, I don't think. You can
response.sendRedirect() to any URL if that's all you need.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Byron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: Forward to different website.
> I need to forward to a different website entirely from inside my servlet.
>
> I tried using the following code:
> RequestDispatcher rd =
getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("//otherwebsite.com/page.html");
> rd.forward(request, response);
>
> But it didn't seem to want to forward anywhere. I was able to
successfully
> forward inside my own site though. But I do need to forward to a
different
> site. Is there any way for me to do this?
>
> I am in "http://websiteone.com/someservlet"; and want to forward back to
> "http://anotherwebsite.com/somepage.html";.
>
> Thank You,
> Bob Byron
