Doubt in forwarding to Servlet/JSP in another Application

[Senthil Kumar]

Hi all,
Can anyone say how can we forward to a servlet/JSP available in another application(Context).

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Senthil

[Tarun Yadav]

By default, you can't; it would be a security loophole.

But you can set it up depending on your server; for Tomcat, you need to first set the attribute 'crossContext' equal to true for the webapp's <Context> element.

You can then get the other context with ServletContext.getContext("/otherWebApp"). On this, you can then use the usual getRequestDispatcher() and RequestDispatcher.forward() methods.

[Senthil Kumar]

Thanks a lot for your reply

[Senthil Kumar]

But i have a question.
Sometimes we just forward to homepage of another site
example:
response.sendRedirect("www.xx.com");

In this case we are trying to access JSP/HTML of another application which is a resource of another application.
Is that true.In this case i have not made any settings as you said before.

[Ben Souther]

With redirects, you're actually asking the browser to make a brand new request to the other URL. There is no server side interaction between the two applications.

[Tarun Yadav]

Also, I don't think this:

response.sendRedirect("www.xx.com");

will work. You'll need to add the protocol information:

response.sendRedirect("http://www.xx.com");

The first one will simply append "www.xx.com" to the current request path!
[ October 25, 2007: Message edited by: Tarun Yadav ]

[Senthil Kumar]

Oh OK... i got it...
so it means that we can send a request to another resource available in another application only by 2 ways.
1.Context.getContext("/xx");
2.response.sendRedirect("http://www.xx.com");
Is that right?

[Tarun Yadav]

That's correct but keep in mind that with an include(), you're sending the original request object (via server side call)but with a redirect you're sending a new request (by sending the location to the browser and asking it to ask for that resource).
[ October 26, 2007: Message edited by: Tarun Yadav ]

[Senthil Kumar]

Thanks Tarun Thanks a lot for your reply.
am clear now.