Thanks for the suggestions.  I originally tried the RequestDispatcher,
but found that it assumed that the new URL was inside the current
context. e.g.:

RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
request.getRequestDispatcher("http://www.google.com";);
       dispatcher.forward(request,response);

throws this exception:

The requested resource (/jcc/servlet/http:/www.google.com) is not available.


Thanks again!


-- john


Milt Epstein wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Devang Shah wrote:


I think forward() forwards request to the specified resource on the
current server only. However you can use
HttpServletResponse.redirect to redirect response to another
server. You can also post to another URL from within HTML/JSP page.


Just to clarify, the question stated "outside the current *context*"
[emphasis added], not "outside the current server".  I believe someone
posted an solution using RequestDispatcher -- I'm not 100% sure that
will work, but I think it will.  Certainly easy to try.



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Hello All,


is there a way that I can use the
RequestDispatcher.forward(request,response) method to forward a request
to an URL outside the current context?

Thanks!

-- john

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