Actually, it's always worked for me:
This works on
Tomcat 5.0.30 at least. Works with <jsp:include> and <jsp:forward> too. I think there was even a question on this in one of the Head First
Servlets & JSP mock tests, but I'm not sure.
[edit] Found it! Page 219, question 12, - Which statements about RequestDispatcher are true?".
"[]C. Parameters specified in the query
string used to create a RequestDispatcher are not forwarded by the forward() method."
"Option C is incorrect because such parameters are forwarded in this case."
-Yuriy
[ August 19, 2005: Message edited by: Yuriy Zilbergleyt ]