How does a servlet know when it is being redirected to the right page

[Vivian Ryder]

I am writing a servlet that will send certain parameters to a foreign servlet which will decide on which web page to display basing on the parameters sent. And my web application will process accordingly depending on which web page is sent. My problem is that how will my servlet know which web page it is being redirected. Is there any way I can know the URL of the web page that I am being redirected to?

Thank you

Vivian

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Why not ask in our Servlets forum? Here, I'll move this there for you.

[Stan James]

How is your servlet communicating with the foreign one ... URL or HttpURLConnection or something like that? Look in the doc or on Google for a "follow forward" option that makes one of those (forget which) automatically follow any forward headers sent back by the foreign servlet. I've set this to true before (maybe the default) but never really tested how well it works.

[Jeroen Wenting]

redirect is a clientside action therefore the HTTP response will contain the redirect URL as well as a return code in the 300 range indicating you're being redirected.

If the request is forwarded otoh you will notice nothing and you shouldn't bother as forward is purely serverside and completely transparent to the client (all the client notices is that the actual data in the response are different for different requests).

[Vivian Ryder]

Thanks for the reply, but how do I retrieve the URL contained in the HTTPResponse? Is the method losted in javadoc?

Thank you