by default the '/' root is from your webapp, as it should be. All URLs should be from '/' that are going to the same webapp. If your going to another webapp just do an http://.... (Is this last sentence right?) Don't use ../.. whatever you do! (not easily mutable) Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Redirecting to a relative URL from root > > > I would like a forward to redirect off of the root context. Normally, if my > struts app is in a WAR , let's say MyStrutsApp this forward: > > <forward name = "success" path = "/mydir/allben_home.jsp" > redirect = "true"/> > > would result in a redirect to > http://myhost:myport/MyStrutsApp/mydir/allben_home.jsp > > I would like to do a redirect to http://myhost:myport/mydir/allben_home.jsp > > Looking at the processActionForward code below this would work if I removed > the '/' but by definition this doesn't work since redirecting to a relative > link without a slash in front of it will still result in MyStrutsApp > appearing in the new redirect URL. > > How can I do this? > > > > > > > > protected void processActionForward(ActionForward forward, > ActionMapping mapping, > ActionForm formInstance, > HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) > throws IOException, ServletException { > > if (forward != null) { > String path = forward.getPath(); > if (forward.getRedirect()) { > if (path.startsWith("/")) > path = request.getContextPath() + path; > response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(path)); > } else { > RequestDispatcher rd = > getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(path); > if (rd == null) { > > response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, > internal.getMessage > ("requestDispatcher", > path)); > return; > } > rd.forward(request, response); > } > } > > > _______________________ > Will Spies > Towers Perrin > Phone: (215)246-7145 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
