As a rule of thumb... Normal workflow would use a forward. Abnormal workflow, such as session timeouts requiring the user to be passed back to the login page, or notification of moved pages where you want the user to rebookmark would be redirects.
Redirects are slower because of the extra round-trip and as others have said cause request-scode parameters and variables to be lost. So use them only when you need to. -----Original Message----- From: Kommineni, Sateesh (GE Consumer & Industrial) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 April 2004 13:40 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: what is the difference between forward and redirect? Hi, when you use redirect , what ever data you have stored in the request will no longer be available as you are making a new request. where as if you use forward the request scope will be continued and all the objects you stored in the request will be available.. -Sateesh -----Original Message----- From: Johannes Wolfgang Woger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:57 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: what is the difference between forward and redirect? Hi, I basically understood the technical diffence between forward and redirect, but from webapplications point of view, when do I use forward or redirect. On which circumstances should I use a redirect for example? Wolfgang Sanoj, Antony (IE10) wrote: >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] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Although the Barclays Group operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays Group. Replies to this email may be monitored by the Barclays Group for operational or business reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
