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Unable to Redirect within framework - Add RedirectAction?

           Summary: Unable to Redirect within framework - Add
                    RedirectAction?
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.1 Beta 2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: Standard Actions
        AssignedTo: struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: parsetdx@hotmail.com


I am attempting to send a redirect using the Struts v1.1b2 library.  I 
attempted using the "redirect" and "contextRelative" attributes of the 
<forward> element within an action.  These did not work.  I noticed that in the 
source code for the build, the context path is ALWAYS being appended, even when 
the redirect attribute is set to true, and even when I specify a fully 
qualified URL.  I tried redirecting to "/marvel/test.html" which is a separate 
web application sharing the webserver.  Then I tried "http://www.yahoo.com".  
Neither seemed to work.

What I really wanted was an action which would be analagous to the 
ForwardAction, but sends a redirect instead of a forward.  Such an action does 
not exist.  So, I took the ForwardAction, copied it, and changed it to send a 
redirect instead of a forward.  Now it works just the way I wanted it to.  See 
the tag below.

	<action	    path="/marvelJump"
	            type="xxx.share.web.RedirectAction"
	            parameter="/marvel/f?p=106:1">
	</action>

I suggest including this RedirectAction in the next Struts release.  Let me 
provide the business case.  We have multiple applications running on multiple 
application servers, but sharing one web server.  These applications perform 
different tasks, but we need to link between them to provide users access to 
the full set of functionality.  We use ACL security to ensure only authorized 
users can even enter the other applications.  This means I must wrap any simple 
links with a web resource (aka an action) to enforce this security.  The 
RedirectAction above is perfect for doing this.

Please feel free to contact me for further information.  Thanks for your time, 
and thanks for all of your hard work on the Struts framework.

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