getRequestURL doesn't return expected result

[kdolan1]

Help!  I'm currently trying to upgrade an application from JBoss 4.0.1sp1 to 7.1.1 Final and am experiencing an issue for which I can find no solution.  I found what might be a related issue (https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-6570) but it was recorded against AS 6, closed because of that understandibly but not re-recorded for AS 7. 

I have an application MyEar.ear configured to use JAAS security that contains MyWar.war configured to redirect protected requests to a FORM login page.

I have a login page - MyEar.ear/MyWar.war/WEB-INF/login.jsp. 

I have 2 conceptual sites - a user and admin site.  The user site is accessed as http://server:port/MyEar/user and the admin site is accessed as http://server:port/MyEar/admin.  The login page calls request.getRequestURL() to determine which site is being accessed and generates the content of the login page differently based on which site is being accessed among other things.

In JBoss 4, request.getRequestURL() returns

* returns http://server:port/MyEar/user when http://server:port/MyEar/user is entered

* returns http://server:port/MyEar/admin when http://server:port/MyEar/admin is entered

* if params are entered on the URL, they are not part of the string returned by getRequestURL() but that's okay for me

In JBoss 7, request.getRequestURL() returns http://server:port/MyEar/WEB-INF/login.jsp.

This is a HUGE problem for me.  Is there an alternate way to get the information I need OR is this a bug in JBoss 7.1.1 for which I need to open a JIRA issue?

Many thanks for quick responses,

Kelly

[kdolan1]

Due to lack of response, I opened https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5040.

[kdolan1]

So the JIRA issue was rejected for the following reason:

FORM uses internal forwards and things, and it may have changed from very old releases (which may have used a redirect instead). The request dispatcher state is available to the servlet, so all the needed information should be available (but not through the browser URL).

I don't quite understand the explanation but I found instead of request.getRequestURL() the following works...

(String)request.getAttribute(RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_REQUEST_URI);

[jaikiran]

Kelly Dolan wrote:

I don't quite understand the explanation but I found instead of request.getRequestURL() the following works...

(String)request.getAttribute(RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_REQUEST_URI);

Actually, that's what the JIRA comment meant.  So you are now using the right API.