making "forward mappings" redirectable

[Mike Papper <mp...@geocities.com>]

Struts question #1:
We have something like the following in action.xml

  <action    path="/logoff"
      actionClass="hhw.auth.LogoffAction">
    <forward name="success"    path="/index.jsp"/>
  </action>

what I really want is

  <action    path="/logoff"
      actionClass="hhw.auth.LogoffAction">
    <forward name="success"    path="/index.jsp"/ redirect="true">
  </action>

I have looked high and low throughoutthe struts code for how to add code 
to understand this and cannot find it. The closest I am getting is the 
digester "magic" code that does who knows what...

anyone know if this can be done? Or how I could edit the ocde myself to 
do it?

Also, if I could do such a thing then I would want the class that 
"interprets" the path for a redirect to be SMARt enough to prepend the 
path with the context path (but only if necessary) so that it works 
correctly. (I.e., if the URL starts with / then it must be prepended with 
the request.getContextPath() but if it doesnt start with a / then its a 
relative url and will be interpreted relative to the current page and the 
current page already has the context's path in front of it). I would be 
happy to explain this in more detail.

Speaking of which, is the following from ActionServlet's 
processActionInstance method a bug?

...
	ActionForward forward =
	    actionInstance.perform(this, mapping, formInstance,
				   request, response);
	if (forward != null) {
	    String path = forward.getPath();

	    if (forward.getRedirect()) {
		response.sendRedirect(path);

shouldnt the last line be:

		response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(path));


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