RedirectView question

[Frank Truong]

Dear All,

My question is about the RedirectView object. I cannot get RedirectView object to redirect the view to the page residing under /WEB-INF directory.

As recommended, I keep my .jsp files under /WEB-INF/jsp/ directory. However, I have never been able to use RedirectView to redirect to any pages under this 'taboo' directory. If I moved these .jsp files out of /WEB-INF directory, I was okay.

I start wondering whether it is impossible for RedirectView to do the redirecting in Tomcat(6x).

Do you have any suggestions about this?

Thank you.

Frank

[Lorand Komaromi]

Frank Truong wrote:As recommended

By whom? It makes sense only if you don't want them to be directly reachable to the clients...

Frank Truong wrote:
My question is about the RedirectView object. I cannot get RedirectView object to redirect the view to the page residing under /WEB-INF directory.

RedirectView will send a redirect header to the browser, instructing it to open the new URL, but it can't, since the content of WEB-INF directory is not exposed to the web clients. Move them out of WEB-INF!

[Frank Truong]

Hi,

Thank you very much.

I've got into the habit of putting and .jsp files underneath /WEB-INF/jsp directory because my first Spring book was 'Spring In Action' (old edition) and my IDE was Netbeans.

Probably, I would use RedirectView only when the view page is not resided in /WEB-INF directory.

Still learning everyday...

Thank you, again.

Frank

[Lorand Komaromi]

You're welcome!