Hi, You should call ServletContext.getContext(...) to get the handle to another web context on the same JVM.
Then, you can use the obtained ServletContext to retrive RequestDispatcher to forward your call to the new context. HTH John -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John C Cartwright Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: forward request to URL outside current context 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. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet >>API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John >>C Cartwright >>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:48 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] forward request to URL outside current >>context >> >> >>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 >> >>===================================================== >>John Cartwright >>Associate Scientist >>Geospatial Data Services Group >>CIRES, National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA >>(303) 497-6284 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>===================================================== >> > > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > -- ===================================================== John Cartwright Associate Scientist Geospatial Data Services Group CIRES, National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA (303) 497-6284 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================== ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
