html:link problem with frames.

[c huisman]

Hello,
I am using frames in my web app not b/c I want to, but b/c I have to. I am using the <html:link> tag to with a page attribute to go to my action class. I am able to do this successfully from one frameset to another one using the following link in the menu frame of frameset1:
<html:link page="<%="/view.do?action=View%20Types"%>" target="_top">
Machines
</html:link>
This passes the user onto a new frameset: frameset2. I have another link that is almost identical to the previous one in the menu frame of frameset2
<html:link page="<%="/view.do?action=View%20Products"%>" target="body_content">
Products
</html:link>
This link does not work, it gives me the "Request[/view] does not contain handler parameter named action" error. This is very frustrating. I know that the ViewAction has the hanler for the parameter named action b/c I am able to type the link into the browser address bar and everything behaves correctly.
Any ideas as to why this is happening?
thanks,
c.

[c huisman]

Oh ya if you didn't realize it already, I am using LookupDispatchAction for my Action.
Another question: could the request be getting lost on the way to the server b/c of the frames? I don't think this is the case since the request of the frame the link is in should get sent to the server and this holds the "action" parameter, so "action" should be found and the value of it used to determine which method to call.
This is the action mapping I am using:
<action
attribute="viewForm"
input="pages/products/type.jsp"
name="viewForm"
parameter="action"
path="/view"
scope="request"
type="xxx.xxx.xxx.struts.action.ViewAction"
validate="false">
<forward name="productList" path="pages/products/productListing.jsp />
<forward name="type" path="pages/products/idx_product.htm" /> <!-- this is a frameset -->
</action>
where the "type" forward is where:
<html:link page="<%="/view.do?action=View%20Types"%>" target="_top">
Machines
</html:link>
will eventually take the user and the "productList" forward is where:
<html:link page="<%="/view.do?action=View%20Products"%>"
target="body_content">
Products
</html:link>
will take the user.