Getting a servlet to spawn its own "submit"

[Cali Hotstuff]

Currently I have a setup where an html form 'a' submits to servlet
'A', which redirects the user to page 'b'.

I need to change this to something where 'a' submits to servlet 'B',
which itself simulates a submit to servlet 'A' and then redirects to
'b' (ie B submits to A, A's redirect is ignored, B redirects user to
b). I'm guessing that from servlet B I need to somehow build my own
Request or Response object, redirect it to A, and then redirect the
user's response object to b. Unfortunately, if this even is the right
route to take, I can't figure out how to construct my own
request/response...

Any suggestions? I can be more specific with the details if need be.

Many thanks,
cali

 

[Ben_]

See the RequestDispatcher class. There is an include and a forward method
for this.

http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.3/javadoc/javax/servlet/RequestDispat
cher.html

 

[William Brogden]

Currently I have a setup where an html form 'a' submits to servlet
'A', which redirects the user to page 'b'.

I need to change this to something where 'a' submits to servlet 'B',
which itself simulates a submit to servlet 'A' and then redirects to
'b' (ie B submits to A, A's redirect is ignored, B redirects user to
b). I'm guessing that from servlet B I need to somehow build my own
Request or Response object, redirect it to A, and then redirect the
user's response object to b. Unfortunately, if this even is the right
route to take, I can't figure out how to construct my own
request/response...

The servlet API provides the handy HttpServletRequestWrapper
and HttpServletResponseWrapper classes you can extend.