URL rewriting by AjaxViewHandler

[v.bannur]

Hello,

I need to hide the actual URL of the application from the client browser.

For ex: Actual URL is http://localhost:8080/b2c/abc/xyz/pqr.xhtml and I need to rewrite this URL to : http://localhost:8080/MyApplication

For this I have used custom AjaxViewHandler (attached a file)

In this class I have overide the getActionURL() method and rewriting the actual URL. Even though the actual URL is showing client browser (Still not hiding).

Please help me anyone what wrong in my code.

[v.bannur]

Any one help me please?

[healeyb]

There are a couple of  established approaches to solving this problem:

1. Use PrettyFaces http://ocpsoft.org/prettyfaces/

2. If you have an apache web server fronting your application server you can use mod_rewrite to do anything you want

   with URLs. Be warned though that despite being functional and fast the apache configuration was designed in hell

   and has flames coming out of it, which is what happens to a lot of people when they first try to use it.

Perhaps of more use is the fact that JSF always shows the URL of the last page, not the current page. What you can

do is use a post-redirect-get pattern:

<h:commandButton action="login.xhtml?faces-redirect=true"/>

normally the browser would issue a POST request to the server when you click the button. With PRG the browser sends

a POST request followed by a GET request. With PRG if you refresh the page only the GET is resent avoiding potential

duplicate orders etc...

Regards,

Brendan.

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[v.bannur]

Thanks Brendanfor replying

You mean to say there is no soution from the custom view handler?

However I use faces-redirect=true for every navigation rule.

I heared there are few issues with prettyfaces and richfaces A4J components. thats the reason i was looking with custom viewhandler.