Re: forward request to URL outside current context

Thanks for the suggestions.  I originally tried the RequestDispatcher,
but found that it assumed that the new URL was inside the current
context. e.g.:

RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
request.getRequestDispatcher("http://www.google.com");
        dispatcher.forward(request,response);

throws this exception:

The requested resource (/jcc/servlet/http:/www.google.com) is not available.


Thanks again!

-- john


Milt Epstein wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Devang Shah wrote:
>
>
>>I think forward() forwards request to the specified resource on the
>>current server only. However you can use
>>HttpServletResponse.redirect to redirect response to another
>>server. You can also post to another URL from within HTML/JSP page.
>
>
> Just to clarify, the question stated "outside the current *context*"
> [emphasis added], not "outside the current server".  I believe someone
> posted an solution using RequestDispatcher -- I'm not 100% sure that
> will work, but I think it will.  Certainly easy to try.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
>>API Technology. [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John
>>C Cartwright
>>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:48 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] forward request to URL outside current
>>context
>>
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>is there a way that I can use the
>>RequestDispatcher.forward(request,response) method to forward a request
>>to an URL outside the current context?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-- john
>>
>>=====================================================
>>John Cartwright
>>Associate Scientist
>>Geospatial Data Services Group
>>CIRES, National Geophysical Data Center/NOAA
>>(303) 497-6284
>>[email protected]
>>=====================================================
>>
>
>
> Milt Epstein
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