Thx,
My idea was to allow multi-level popup.
Jsp1 => Jsp2 => Jsp3
Jsp1 <= Jsp2 => Jsp3
...or any combination...
Lewis
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Alfors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 April 2001 20:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Returning from a form apge
The request contains the referring page.
request.getHeader("Referer")
Therefore, your action class for the 3rd page could look up where he came
from
in the request.
HTH,
Pete
Lewis Henderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also have a similar issue...a reuseable popup...
>
> The problem with your passing the return page as a parameter is that you
can
> only nest to one level...
>
> I am thinking of writing a 'push'/'pop'/'peek' implementation to allow
this
> to occur...
>
> Does anyone have any comments/ideas.
>
> Lewis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 30 April 2001 19:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Returning from a form apge
>
> In our web application, we have two pages from which a user can access a
> third page. From the third page (which is form to fill out and save), the
> user either saves or cancels their action, and the user is returned to the
> page from which they originally started. However, the third page has no
> knowledge about where it came from so it doesn't no who to forward to when
> its action is complete.
>
> I'm not sure how best to handle this situation. One option would be to
use
> a parameter on the link to the third page with a value indicating the page
> to return to. However, I'm using an <html:link> tag which is passing
other
> object related parameters on to the third screen (the form uses this
> information to populate itself). What I would like to do is get the
> parameters from the object and then append another parameter which
> indicates the page to return to but I can't do that and use the link
> tag. I'm toying with the idea of building a custom link tag which also
> takes a "return" attribute. This tag would put the return information in
> the parameter list that gets generated. Before I do that, however, I'm
> wondering what other ways people have used to address this sort of
problem?
> (I assume that I'm not the only person to have encoutered this situation)
>
> Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
