Mike, forward is carried inside the servlet engine, whereas the redirect goes to the browser, and then the browser sends the request to the resource forward preserves the request state, but redirect destroys the original request as it completes a request/response cycle when the browser receives the redirect. regards Sanoj
-----Original Message----- From: Mu Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what is the difference between forward and redirect? when forward, what do we foward? when redirect, what we do different? Thanks&Regards Mike _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流,请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]