How to use Javascript variable value in JSP

[sourabh bansal]

Can any one tell how to use java script varaible value in JSP.

Here code looks like....

<script type="text/javascript">
var test1=window.location.pathname
</script>

How can i use this "test1" in my jsp/jstl code.

Test path is <c:out value='${test1}'>

how can print Scriplet genrated result in JSTL.


Thanks
cheers....

[Ulf Dittmer]

JSPs run at the server, while JavaScript runs at the client - never the twain shall meet.

The JSP already knows the URL of the page it's generating - what else are you looking for?

[sourabh bansal]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:JSPs run at the server, while JavaScript runs at the client - never the twain shall meet.

The JSP already knows the URL of the page it's generating - what else are you looking for?

Thanks Sherrif....Thanks for the reply,I want to use in tracking purpose...Is there any other way to do it....

[Tudor Raneti]

The title here : http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=22950
is

How can you copy a JavaScript variable to a JSP session variable without using cookies?

so there's an answer for you.

Try generating / editing a JSP page from JavaScript:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaScript/HTML/HTML-Generate.htm
http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaScript/HTML/UsingJavaScripttoCreateHTMLTags.htm
If you can generate HTML you can generate JSP IMO (or at least try resending the page with JSP markup to the server, if you can do that it'll work).

You can say you use a javascript variable in JSP too if you use it before the javascript is used :P - before you generate it that is.
http://coldjava.hypermart.net/servlets/jscalltag.htm
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-simplejava1/index.html

[Bear Bibeault]

Tudor Andrei Raneti wrote:If you can generate HTML you can generate JSP IMO

Ummm, no. You can't. Any JSP syntax generated on the client will just be gibberish.

JSP and JavaScript cannot directly interact as the JSP gets executed on the server long before the HTML page it generates is sent to the browser where the JavaScript is evaluated.

[Tudor Raneti]

You're right, I know JSP has to be parsed, and for that it needs sending to the server. The scenario i was thinking is the following: the problem is that the JSP on page is only temporary, so making a page refresh or self forward to self would return the old version of the page i think (because the server still has the old version, so a request will send the old version as a response). The chalange would be sending the new page as it is to the server and getting the parsed version of it back . It's beyond me at this point. Probably would need a special framework to do that, but i don't see the point.

[Bear Bibeault]

There is no point as all that is not necessary in the face of techniques like Ajax. What the original poster needs to understand is how JSP really works and why what he's trying to do makes no sense and is non-causal.

Then he can post what he's really trying to accomplish and we can all figure out the best way to get it done.

Perhaps this article can help.