Difference between setting URL in "Refresh" header and response.sendRedirect() method?

"Karr, David" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
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I'm changing an existing servlet that redirects to an external URL by
setting the "URL" attribute in the "Refresh" header of the response.  I
would think the Java way to do this would be to use the
HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() method. Is there any effective
difference between these two approaches?  Does "sendRedirect" do any
encoding of the URL, if necessary?  This would be an advantage over
direct reference to the "Refresh" header.

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