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Subject: RE: Forwarding from within a Servlet
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:32:31 -0400
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Thread-Topic: Forwarding from within a Servlet
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From: "Shapira, Yoav" <Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>


Howdy,
The request dispatcher expects an argument starting with a /, not ../.=

The argument is relative to the context root, aka the docBase of your
webapp.  So if your timeout.html page is at the docbase, call
rd.include("/timeout.html").

Also consider using one of the following alternatives:
- RequestDispatcher.forward to a servlet that handles unauthorized use=
rs
and/or timeouts
- Throwing a specific exception, e.g. UnauthorizedUserException, which=

you have mapped (via an <error-page> tag in web.xml) to a handler.  Th=
is
way you don't have to the redirection manually, as the container will =
do
it for you automatically.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan Behrens [mailto:jan@diekleinedomain.de]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:34 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: Forwarding from within a Servlet
>
>Hi List,
>
>I have a servlet that is supposed to controll the access of app-users=

on a
>"per keyword" base. Certain jsp's in my app include that servlet on
load
>and
>pass a string specifying the calling pagename. The servlet then gets =
my
>user-object out of the request-session and checks whether the
particular
>user
>is allowed to access or not. If he is, the servlet just writes a
comment in
>to
>the stream and thats it. If however the user is not allowed to access=

that
>particular resource, I want to redirect the user to a different page
within
>my
>app. If the session expired and therefore no user-object could be
found, I
>would like to forward the user to a different page...
>
>My problem is that I am quite new to servlets (have worked with jsp's=

only
>so
>far) and I am not sure how to go about forwarding from within my
servlet. I
>have tried the following:
>
>[snip]
>            if(DEBUG)out.println("<BR>logOutUser<BR>");
>            RequestDispatcher rd =3D
>request.getRequestDispatcher(getPathToRoot(request) + TIMEOUT_URL);
>            try {
>                rd.include(request,response);
>                out.close();
>            }catch (Exception e) {
>                if(DEBUG)out.println("accessControll.accessDenied()
><BR>"+e);
>                out.close();
>            }
>[/snip]
>
>getPathToRoot() basically takes the request.getHeader("referer") and
>extracts
>the number of "/", minus those used in the hostname and returns a
string
>containing "../" for each "/" found and TIMEOUT_URL contains the
complete
>path
>to the resource from document-root.
>The url build out of those is correct in itself, the RequestDispatche=
r
>however
>doesn't forward to the right page but instead ignores all but the
pagename.
>
>It be very thankfull for any help & comment
>
>Jan
>
>
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