When you do a RequestDispatcher.forward(), that's an internal
operation, and not a redirect send back to the browser. In the latter
case, the browser initiates a new GET request to the new URL. In the
former case, the page at the RequestDispatcher.forward() address is
simply sent to the browser without the browser being any the wiser. In
that sense, it's the same kind of thing as an internal redirect in
Apache.
Whether the address "example.jsp#position1" is a good URL or a bad URL
or whether it's a tomcat bug or a serverlet 2.2 spec bug that an
exception wasn't thrown is something I don't know. But going back to
my first point, since the browser is unaware of the forward anyway,
anchors won't work. Do a redirect to the browser instead.
-- Rob
--On Monday, March 05, 2001 10:09:24 AM -0800 Filip Hanik
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> I thought the anchor tag was something that was interpreted by the
> browser, not the server.
> doesn't the server just ignore those?
>
> correct me if I am wrong!
>
> Filip
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sebastian Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 9:48 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RequestDispatcher.forward()-Problem with anchors
>>
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> i have a problem with RequestDispatcher.forward():
>> if the url contains an anchor like "example.jsp#position1"
>> then forwarding seams to be be all right (no error, exception ...),
>> but the 'new' page has no content.
>>
>> i tried to forward to a url with parameters like
>> "example.jsp?name=value", this is no problem and
>> the page is shown correctly?
>>
>> whats my mistake?
>> is it possible to forward a anchor-containing url
>> at all?
>>
>> any suggestions desired!
>>
>> thank you all in advance,
>>
>> bas T.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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