forward from servlet to ASP

[Fouad Fares]

Hello,
I build a servlet that use the requestDispatcher , setAttribute methods to forward the visitors to another sites and sending confidential parameters like password .
But it seems that it doesn't work correctly because my jserv is 1.0.2 and in my jserv.log i have the following error message : setattribute method not found and same message to the requestDispatcher .
How can i make this scenario using the SendRedirect method .
Please advise me any hint or solution about this issue .
Thank you in advance,
Best regards .
Fouad .

[Michael Zalewski]

You can only forward to another servlet. So RequestDispatcher won't do you any good if you are trying to get to a non-servlet.
But you can always do

res.sendRedirect( "http://somehost/somepage.asp");

[Phil Chuang]

Just to clarify, JSPs are servlets too, so you can forward to servlets & JSPs, but not any other kind of file. Use the response.sendRedirect()

[Jessica Sant]

to get even MORE specific... you can only forward or include other files within the same web app.
.... granted, if you want to forward/include something in a different webapp you can do that... you just have to do a lil extra work and get a reference to the other web app (currentServletContext.getContext(uri) and then get a reference to THAT web app's RequestDispatcher...
but anyway --- yeah, you're gonna have to use sendRedirect() if you want to go to an .asp
[ April 16, 2003: Message edited by: Jessica Sant ]