The purpose of requestDispatcher is to make another servlet/JSP to handle
your request. If you don't want the calling resource to process the request
, then you can use the response.sendRedirect(). It'll show the URL in the
address bar of the browser.
Hope this helps you.
Sateesh
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> Subject: URL Address Display on the browser
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to return a webpage to the browser using
> both RequestDispatcher.foward() and
> HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect(). For both methods,
> I can successfully display the desired page on the
> browser, however the URL display on the Address panel
> of IE (or Location for Netscape) is not the one for
> the desired page been displayed. May I know what
> should I do in order to get the correct URL display on
> the browser?
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Best Regards
>
> David
>
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