header and headerValues

[Ramya Iyer]

I am not sure what I am doing incorrect....

in my servlet, i added a new header

response.addHeader("fruit","banana");
response.addHeader("fruit","apple");
RequestDispatcher view = request.getRequestDispatcher("/result1.jsp");
view.forward(request,response);

But I am not able to retrieve the headers set in result1.jsp using both EL and scripting. I thought when view.include is called headers are not sent, but for forward headers are sent to the forwaded page. If that is the case why do I get blank for ${header.fruit} or <%=request.getHeader("fruit")%>. Pls clarify

[Vishnu Prakash]

You are setting the headers in servlet(web component-server side) and forwarding to JSP(another web component-server side) and trying to get the same header. How is it possible.

The method is called on "response" object, which means the result is send to the client. Using request.getHeader() you can access Headers that are send from the client and NOT send to the client.

Hope you can understand.