Check out: http://www.jspinsider.com/reference/jspredirection.html for a complete page long description of the differences in a nutshell response.sendRedirect("web/welcome.jsp") is how to have your client's browser request a new page. and <jsp:forward page="web/welcome.jsp" /> is a server redirection: How to have the server sent to a new page. Casey Kochmer >From: Brad Miley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and > reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: redirect and forward, the difference >Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:54:45 GMT > >What is the difference between >1. <jsp:forward page="web/welcome.jsp" /> >2. response.sendRedirect("web/welcome.jsp"); > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff >JSP-INTEREST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > >http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html >http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html >http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP >http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets