Redirecting a http POST request, without loosing data?

[basic]

I have a web service that has moved to another server, but clients
still use the old server.
What i need to do is simply redirect their requests to the new server,
and keep all data in the redirect process. simple http redirect looses
data, and the servlet dispatcher mechanism works only for redirecting
to local resources.
Is there anything i can do to redirect the request?

Here is the POST request:

POST http://oldserver/service HTTP/1.1
Host: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: TE
TE: trailers, deflate, gzip, compress
User-Agent: RPT-HTTPClient/0.3-3
SOAPAction: ""
Accept-Encoding: gzip, x-gzip, compress, x-compress
Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-length: 606

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<SOAP_XML>...</SOAP_XML>

Thanks!

 

[Steve Sobol]

I have a web service that has moved to another server, but clients
still use the old server.
What i need to do is simply redirect their requests to the new server,
and keep all data in the redirect process. simple http redirect looses
data, and the servlet dispatcher mechanism works only for redirecting
to local resources.

Have you considered JSP's "forward" functionality?

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[basic]

Have you considered JSP's "forward" functionality?

This functionality emulates servlet's dispatcher mechanism, which
means that it can only forward to local servlets and jsps, and not to
any outside url.

 

[Wendy S]

I have a web service that has moved to another server, but clients

still use the old server.
What i need to do is simply redirect their requests to the new server,
and keep all data in the redirect process. simple http redirect looses
data, and the servlet dispatcher mechanism works only for redirecting
to local resources.
Is there anything i can do to redirect the request?

Not a redirect, that tells the client to make a new request to the URL you
provide. (Unless you can get all the data into the URL as request
parameters.)

You could sit in the middle as proxy. You've got all the data, so you POST
it to the new server, receive the response, and hand the response back to
the client. On the old server, replace the web service with a Servlet that
handles this. (I'd also keep a log of who's still using the old server, and
work towards converting them.