JSP hyperlink to protected page

[Brooke Maddox]

Hello everyone,
I was wondering if there is a way I can hyperlink to protected page. Here is my reasoning, I have a jsp page that allows a user to add/delete items from a database. Once the user has added/deleted an item they are redirected to a confirmation jsp page. From this page I would like to allow the user to go back to the protected add/delete page in order to add/delete another item from the database. Can I do this using a hyper link or do I need to use a form whose action is a servlet in order to redirect the response back to the add/delete page. Here is the code I am trying, and is not working.

<h1>Your Item has been Added to the Database</h1>
<%-- diplay product that was added --%>
<h2>Product ID: ${product.ID}</h2>
<h2>Product Name: ${product.name}</h2>
<h2>Product Description: ${product.description}</h2>
<h2>Product Price: ${product.price}</h2><br/>
<h2><a href="WEB-INF/view/admin.jsp">Click Here</a>To Add or Delete another Item</h2>

[Bear Bibeault]

It's not at all clear what yea mean by a "protected page".

[Brooke Maddox]

Sorry I mean a jsp page that is in the WEB-INF directory.
Here is by tree
WebPages
-WEB-INF
-view
-admin.jsp

I should add that a user name and password are needed in order to access this page.

Do I need to store the user name and password in a session in order to allow a hyperlink back to the admin.jsp page?

[Bear Bibeault]

The whole purpose for putting a JSP under WEB-INF is to prevent just what you are trying to do; so don't even try. A JSP page should never be invoked without its page controller. So your link should be to the page controller, not to the JSP page.

[Brooke Maddox]

Thank you :)