dispatcher.forward(), but with new URL

[Erik Price]

Hi,

Sorry if this is too simple a question, I'm still just getting my first JSP/servlet application underway.

I have a servlet called LoginServlet, that is passed some POST parameters and does some processing with them. There are two possible outcomes -- one is that the authentication fails and the user is sent to a page indicating that they failed to log in.

The other outcome is that the user is taken to "main.jsp", which is a JSP that I have written which serves as a kind of welcome page for logged-in users.

The technique that I would use to do this redirection is to call getRequestDispatcher() from the servlet context and employ the forward() method of the RequestDispatcher object. The problem is that doing so preserves the original URL of LoginServlet.

My question is: how can I send the user to "main.jsp" without using dispatcher.forward(), so that the URL is appropriately displayed as "main.jsp" (plus any other URL parameters such as URL-encoded session data, etc)?

I would like to do this without using filters since I haven't learned how to use these yet.

Thank you,


Erik


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