The words "for further processing" make me think this may not work for you,
but here it is anyway: There is a sendRedirect() function that takes the
name of the target in the Request object. Would that do the trick for you?
Klaus
At 12:07 PM 2/1/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have the following problem:
>a HTTP request is sent by a HTML page (within the browser) to servlet1:
>in the doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) of
>servlet1 this request is treated.
>
>Now during code processing servlet1 in some cases handles the sending of
>the HTTP response himself
>= normal servlet handling, no problem
>in some other cases (e.g. in case of error) servlet1 wants the request to
>be treated by servlet2:
>so servlet1 would like to send a HTTPrequest (new request or forward of
>original request) to servlet2.
>servlet1 would then like to return from its doPost(...) method without
>sending a HTTP response to the browser; it is servlet2
>instead that is then responsible for sending the HTTP response to the browser.
>
>And this is no servlet chaining:
>because:
>that another servlet is involved is not known before sending the HTTP
>request by the browser, it is known first during servlet1 code processing:
>so the servlet engine can not be configured accordingly.
>servlet1 does not setup a HTTP response which is then sent to servlet2 for
>further processing.
>
>Is this possible?
>How (code example) could this action be performed? Are there messages
>provided in the servlet API or must a 'normal' JAVA API be used for
>setting up a HTTP request?
>
>
>Axel, Lannion/France
>
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