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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Jim Richards <gr...@cyber4.org> on 2001/04/25 05:09:28 UTC

Re: why does struts use forward instead of redirect

>At 11:13 PM 24/04/01 -0400, you wrote: 
>Anyone know why struts uses forward instead of redirect?

A redirect sends a request back to the browser, thus generating another
connection between the client and server. Forward keeps it internal
to the server, which also means you can re-use the request object.

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