URLRewrite & redirect issue

[stephanos]

Hi,

I use URLRewrite in order to rewrite

test.com/home.seam?lang=en&ctry=gb

to

test.com/en/gb/home

This works perfectly fine with h:commandLinks and h:outputLinks. But as soon as I have a redirect from pages.xml like

<redirect view-id="/home.xhtml" />

It ends up not being rewritten and shows up with URL parameters :-(

How to solve that??

Cheers,
Stephen

[norman]

What are your rewrite patterns and what URL are you getting that isn't being rewritten?

[stephanos]

Well the relevant patterns are these (since this is about outgoing URLs only those are printed):

   <!-- direct access -->
    <outbound-rule>  
         <from>^/(\w*).seam\?lang=(\w\w)&amp;ctry=(\w\w)$</from>  
         <to last="true">%{context-path}/%{session-attribute:language}/%{session-attribute:country}/$1</to>  
    </outbound-rule>
     
    <outbound-rule>  
         <from>^/(\w*).seam\?lang=(\w\w)&amp;ctry=(\w\w)&amp;(.*)$</from>  
         <to last="true">%{context-path}/%{session-attribute:language}/%{session-attribute:country}/$1?$4</to>  
    </outbound-rule>
     
    <outbound-rule>  
         <from>^/(\w*).seam$</from>  
         <to last="true">%{context-path}/%{session-attribute:language}/%{session-attribute:country}/$1</to>  
    </outbound-rule>
     
    <outbound-rule>  
         <from>^/(\w*).seam\?(.*)$</from>  
         <to last="true">%{context-path}/%{session-attribute:language}/%{session-attribute:country}/$1?$2</to>  
    </outbound-rule>

which works on every h:outputLink request, like the following.

<a jsfc="h:outputLink" id="homeLink" value="/home.seam">
   <span>Home</span>
</a>

I also tested this successfully with TestNG.

However, despite the test results, after redirecting in pages.xml with

<redirect view-id="/home.xhtml" />

the following URL appears:

/home.seam?lang=de&ctry=de

So it seems to me that URL rewriting is not applied when redirecting, which seems odd.