how i can determine last visited page?

[Ramina Nibilian]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
How i can find what is last visited page from my action?

[Ryan Dillon]

Hi Ramina,

Here are a couple of things I can think of:

1) Use the referer header to determine where the request came from, eg:

  
String referer = request.getHeader("Referer");

Note: You cannot rely on the referer always being there.

2) At the end of each Action request, set a session variable that records which Action was executed (either in a base Action class or a subclass of RequestProcessor) and then read this as needed.

Hope that helps.

[alan do]

you can also set a cookie with the value of window.location.href via javascript. the action then can read the cookie and determine the value. the referer won't work in the case of the user bookmarking a particular URL.