Request Dispatcher & Forward

[jbossobj]

Hi,

I'm developing a Web Application with the MVC Architecture. So I have a Controller servlet that forwards the requests to the appropriate Servlet or JSP.

However, I don't like the way the URL behaves in the browser.

An example:

Initial Request:
http://localhost/login the controller does the session management and then forwards the request to the login.jsp

Second Request:
http://localhost/list the controller determines that the session is expired and forwards the request back to the login.jsp

My concern is that the user sees the login.jsp page but the URL seen in the browser is http://localhost/list.

Apart from using frames how can I get the browser's URL to be in sync with the forwards?

TIA,
Glenn.

[jbossobj]

I have read some documents on the Sun Web Site but still haven't found anything.

This post must be too boring since no one has bothered with any replies. :(

[aegcp]

don't you have to use response.sendRedirect("/yourPage"), so you can see the actual url in the location bar??

just a thought...

[joelvogt]

Well, I was told the first rule is that the location bar means nothing in a web application.
Having said that, I like the way struts encodes the urls which hides the detail and just puts up the actions which are useful when debugging