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Bob - 23 May 2006 02:57 GMT

when you use a redirect in a servlet is there some way to get the address of
the page it redirected from.

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SMC - 23 May 2006 03:32 GMT

> when you use a redirect in a servlet is there some way to get the address of
> the page it redirected from.

You could check the Referer header:

request.getHeader("Referer")

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Oliver Wong - 24 May 2006 22:03 GMT

>> when you use a redirect in a servlet is there some way to get the address
>> of
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> request.getHeader("Referer")

Note though that this info comes from the client, who can lie to you. So
don't count on it for security purposes; only use it to provide a convenient
but non-critical feature to the user.

- Oliver

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