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gianni.costanzi

I want to ask you one thing about the use of absolute URLs in the JSP pages and in the servlets..
Suppose that I have a web application called "webapp" with an index.jsp page in its root.. When I want to forward from a servlet to that page I get a RequestDispatcher giving to it the string "/index.jsp".. Why, if I create a jsp page with a form and in the action field of the form I specify "/index.jsp" when I click on submit I am directed to "http://localhost:8080/index.jsp" (that does not exist) instead of being directed to "http://localhost:8080/webapp/index.jsp"? Is there any way to specify that with the initial "/" I mean the root of the application and not the level in which all the web applications are placed? Why should the servlet and the form behave differently? Perhaps it's only a matter of specifying something in the web.xml..

Thank you!

afogarolli

If you use RequestDispatcher your example is ok because the url is always relative to the current web application.
If you put a reference to a jsp in the html form, the / character always reference to the tomcat root that's why the browser redirects your request to localhost:8080/index.jsp.
To make it works you can use an url relative to the html form or a complete url ex. http:/localost:8080/webapp/index.jsp.
This is the way the browser manages the links.
Bye.

S_andrew

If you are putting some url's to resources into your jsp pages, I suggest you to insert <%= request.getContextPath() %> instead of the name of your web application. Because next time, when your change the application name it will be very difficult to modify all names.

gianni.costanzi

S_andrew wrote:

If you are putting some url's to resources into your jsp pages, I suggest you to insert <%= request.getContextPath() %> instead of the name of your web application. Because next time, when your change the application name it will be very difficult to modify all names.

Thank you, I used <%= application.getServletContextName() %> because I thought it was not a good idea to put the application name inside the pages (for the reason that you already said)