The one legitimate use for them that I can think of to have the welcome-page of your web app forward or redirect to an action, because you can't (portably) use an action as the welcome-page.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mohan Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:41 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: <logic:forward> and <logic:redirect> > > > +1 > > IMHO, we are talking about View <-> [Protocol] <-> Controller layers. > > We have taglibs for the View and Actions for the Controller. > logic:redirect and > logic:forward are definitely an encroachment of the view on > controller domain. > In an ideal world we should just take them out. Barring which > (though I dont > really have a use-case), I would recommend having a 'http' > taglib for http > specific tags (maybe have 'wap' etc as needed). > > Mohan > > --- David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would do those things in an Action as I can't see how > they're related to > > the view. If they were tags they would most definitely not > go in the html > > taglib. > > > > David > > > > > > > > >From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: <logic:forward> and <logic:redirect> > > >Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:11:24 -0800 (PST) > > > > > > > > > > > >On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Ted Husted wrote: > > > > > > > Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 07:29:00 -0500 > > > > From: Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Re: <logic:forward> and <logic:redirect> > > > > > > > > Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > > These tags don't belong in struts-html because they > don't generate any > > > > > HTML-speicifc output -- they are perfectly usable > when you are > > >generating > > > > > WML, for example. It's fine to consider a new library for > > > > > HTML-independent output, but I'm -1 on dumping them > into struts-html > > > > > simply because they are Struts specific. > > > > > > > > It's not simply because they are Struts specific. It's > because they > > > > relate to operations associated with HTML pages. > > > > > > > > > >Don't they work in WML pages (or any other XML-based > document format) too? > > >They are HTTP specific (or, more properly, redirect is > HTTP specific and > > >forward is servlet-api-specific), not HTML specific. > > > > > >As a thought experiment, where would you put a new tag to > add an HTTP > > >header? Or set a cookie? > > > > > >Craig > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
