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Posted to user@struts.apache.org by Glen Mazza <gr...@verizon.net> on 2005/08/22 21:39:57 UTC

(ultra-newbie) Cannot forward to a JSP within WEB-INF

Hello,

I'm trying unsuccessfully, within an action-mapping, to forward to a 
UserQuery.JSP kept within the WEB-INF/pages folder of the web 
application.  (I'm intentionally placing it there to prevent direct 
access of this jsp from the browser.)

I'm getting a Tomcat 5.0.28 error as follows:

"The requested resource (/myapp/WEB-INF/pages/UserQuery.jsp) is not 
available."

(I've confirmed that the file is there.)  My action mapping is as follows:

<action
     path="/login"
     input="/WEB-INF/pages/LoginForm.jsp"
     name="loginForm"
     type="com.xxxxx.myapp.struts.action.LoginAction"
     scope="request"
     validate="true">
     <forward name="Failure" path="/WEB-INF/pages/LoginForm.jsp" 
redirect="true"/>
     <forward name="Success" path="/WEB-INF/pages/UserQuery.jsp" 
redirect="true"/>
</action>

I'm sure I'm making an obvious mistake here.  Any enlightenment would be 
much appreciated.

Thanks,
Glen

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Re: (ultra-newbie) Cannot forward to a JSP within WEB-INF

Posted by Glen Mazza <gr...@verizon.net>.
That was it--just switch redirect to "false" in order to forward 
instead.  Thanks Craig!

Glen


Craig McClanahan wrote:
> On 8/22/05, Glen Mazza <gr...@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>     <forward name="Failure" path="/WEB-INF/pages/LoginForm.jsp"
>>redirect="true"/>
>>     <forward name="Success" path="/WEB-INF/pages/UserQuery.jsp"
>>redirect="true"/>
> 
> 
> You are using redirects here, which causes the browser to make a
> second request to the new URL.  It's not legal to make a request
> directly to a JSP page (or any other resource) inside the /WEB-INF
> directory; you have to use forwards instead.
> 
> Craig
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Re: (ultra-newbie) Cannot forward to a JSP within WEB-INF

Posted by Craig McClanahan <cr...@gmail.com>.
On 8/22/05, Glen Mazza <gr...@verizon.net> wrote:

>      <forward name="Failure" path="/WEB-INF/pages/LoginForm.jsp"
> redirect="true"/>
>      <forward name="Success" path="/WEB-INF/pages/UserQuery.jsp"
> redirect="true"/>

You are using redirects here, which causes the browser to make a
second request to the new URL.  It's not legal to make a request
directly to a JSP page (or any other resource) inside the /WEB-INF
directory; you have to use forwards instead.

Craig

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