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sendRedirect not working

I have this page that handles the uploading of files from the client to the application server. I used the jakarta file-upload library. What I did is I submitted the form to a servlet which handles the uploading. My problem is that I need to forward the user to a jsp page after a successful or unsuccessful upload. I used the response.sendRedirect() to send the user from the servlet to the jsp. the problem is that it redirects to a blank page.

One more thing is that we used jsp:include with the attribute flushtrue. I don't know if this is the reason why it doesn't redirects (although it does redirects when I run the application locally).

Is there any workaround on this?

Kuldeepchaturvedi

try requstDispatcher.forward() instead of redirect

icemico

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I've already tried requestDispatcher.forward() but it generates more bugs (ex: css not applied) and most times it cannot locate the .jsp file.

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fargo

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icemico

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request.dispatcher is working but still the CSS is not applied. What does it mean that the css is not relative to the relativepath?

fargo

how do u refer css in your jsp file?

like this <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../somecss.css"" type="text/css">
OR
like this <link rel="stylesheet" href="<html:rewrite page="/somecss.css" />" type="text/css"> [With Struts]

I asked u, do u use struts?

icemico

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I'm not using struts. Its the first option on how I refer css in my jspfile.

fargo

Ok. make use of request.getContextPath here like follows

<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="<%= request.getContextPath() %>/style.css">
keep in mind that the request.getContextPath() will give u the instance context path. For ex. if your webapp is called as

http://localhost:8080/myapps

myapps is the context path. You then have to provide the additional path to the css.

icemico

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Thanks fargo. but i have problems regarding the path.

Let's say my url is something like this: http://localhost:8080/main/sub/main.jsp

When I upload a document (submit the form) I send the form to a servlet. (mapped in the web.xml). so the url becomes: http://localhost:8080/main/upload

from the uploadservlet, I forward the user back to the main.jsp by using the following lines:

String returnSave = "/sub/main.jsp?action=save";
request.RequestDispatcher(request.getContextPath()+returnSave).forward(request, response);

When I deploy it to my server I get this error when it's time to redirect back to the main.jsp: The requested resource (/main/sub/main.jsp) is not available.

Any idea why this happen?

other info: I'm using Jboss as my appserver

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icemico

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It worked! Thanks to both of you guys! It's now working smoothly locally. I just hope it will be the same when I upload it to our app server.

Thanks again!

Kuldeepchaturvedi

glad to be of help..:-)