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RequestDispatcher forward method not working

 
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Hi , i have written a simple servlet for forwarding to a page (www.google.com ) , but its not working , can anybody please tell whats the problem is :



On the execution of above the browser displays :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path https://www.google.co.in does not start with a "/" character


After appending with /



The browser shows a 404 error .

please tell whats the problem is .
 
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Please read the API documentation which says that....


public RequestDispatcher getRequestDispatcher(java.lang.String path)


The pathname must begin with a "/" and is interpreted as relative to the current context root.

Use getContext to obtain a RequestDispatcher for resources in foreign contexts. This method returns null if the ServletContext cannot return a RequestDispatcher.

I hope it helps.
 
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Thanks Rakesh , anyways my question remains the same.
 
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Ravi,

RequestDispatcher cannot be used to redirect to external web sites. If you need to redirect to an external web site like http://www.google.com you have to use response.sendRedirect method instead.


Cheers,

Devaka.
 
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Thank you very much Devaka
 
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