Hi,
Never used the reqeuestdispatcher, but in your case it could be something
like :
response.sendRedirect("http://<servername>/<context>/login.jsp");
(don't know where tomcat is serving jsp files though, I never use them..)
Mvgr,
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: response.sendRedirect vs. requestDispatcher.forward
>
>
> So what is the correct way to redirect? I have started using
> relative links
> to redirect and it seems to fix the problem. Is this just coincidence, or
> is there an explanation for that?
>
> Brandon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin van den Bemt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: response.sendRedirect vs. requestDispatcher.forward
>
>
> If you webserver is serving in /usr/local/apache/htdocs, you are
> redirecting
> to /usr/local/apache/htdocs/login.jsp, which is handled in this example by
> apache, who doesn't know anything about jsp files. (that's why you got
> tomcat in the first place...)
>
> Mvgr,
> Martin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:31 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: response.sendRedirect vs. requestDispatcher.forward
> >
> >
> > Has anyone figured out why response.sendRedirect("/login.jsp")
> > will not work
> > when using apache-tomcat with mod_jk? It gets all screwed up
> and prints a
> > bunch of header information out to the page...is there a way around it
> > besides using javascript to redirect the page?
> >
> > Brandon Cruz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A Yang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 1:13 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: response.sendRedirect vs. requestDispatcher.forward
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the help. As it turns out, switching
> > between requestDispath.forward and response.redirect
> > will trip you up because of differences in what they
> > expect as their parameters.
> >
> > RequestDispatch.forward takes a URL that is a RELATIVE
> > path but also requires a leading slash.
> >
> > If you are brilliant (like myself) and you change your
> > code to use response.encodeRedirectURL but you KEEP
> > that leading slash, well then. Your response will
> > treat it like an absolute path and wind up plunking
> > you into a different servlet context, which Tomcat
> > will generate a new session for.
> >
> > Thanks again for your help,
> > Andy
> >
> > --- Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > A different hostname creates a new session which
> > > could be the problem here..
> > > (so http://www.example.com and http://example.com
> > > create a different session even it's the same
> > > server/context/etc..
> > >
> > > Mvgr,
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Alex Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 4:57 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: response.sendRedirect vs.
> > > requestDispatcher.forward
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Conceptually, requestDispatcher.forward() is
> > > different from
> > > > response.sendRedirect().
> > > >
> > > > In forward(), you are moving inside the same
> > > webapp, and as such it
> > > > doesn't even reach the client browser. The session
> > > is maintained.
> > > >
> > > > In sendRedirect(), you're instead moving across
> > > webapps, and it's the
> > > > browser that redirects to the specified location.
> > > In fact, it doesn't
> > > > even need to be another servlet, you may redirect
> > > to an ASP or a static
> > > > page. New request and response are created.
> > > >
> > > > It seems strange that the session is not
> > > maintained, though, since both
> > > > requests come from the same browser. Perhaps it's
> > > a bug?
> > > >
> > > > Un saludo,
> > > >
> > > > Alex.
> > > >
> > > > A Yang wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone know offhand whether the Java
> > > Servlet
> > > > > specification requires a new HttpSession to be
> > > created
> > > > > when using HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect()?
> > > > >
> > > > > In a servlet, I was using:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/Resu
> > > > lt.jsp").forward(req,
> > > > > resp);
> > > > >
> > > > > at the end of a sequence of pages/servlets, but
> > > I
> > > > > wanted to replace it with
> > > > >
> > > > > response.sendRedirect("/Result.jsp");
> > > > >
> > > > > instead. The result page prints out the contents
> > > of
> > > > > several javabeans which are stored in the
> > > session.
> > > > >
> > > > > This worked fine when all I used were
> > > > > requestDispatcher.forward but with
> > > > > response.sendRedirect(), all of my session
> > > attributes
> > > > > are gone! In fact, the session id is different
> > > after
> > > > > the sendRedirect.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm pretty sure the session is supposed to
> > > survive
> > > > > across any series of GET's and POST's until it
> > > is
> > > > > invalidated explicitly (or timed out).
> > > > >
> > > > > Any thoughts? I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
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