struts: forward based on input

[dennis]

I am newbee in struts so pls bear with me.

Say you have a page that maybe embedded in other pages/frames etc.
User can submit the page. This always ends up in the same action which
does some processing and fowards on to different location depending
where the page was embedded. Is there anything in request that would
tell me where the page came from... if not I'd think to pass a source
variable in the form which would tell me this. Can anyone offer a
better solution?
thx -D

 

[Murray]

I am newbee in struts so pls bear with me.

Say you have a page that maybe embedded in other pages/frames etc.
User can submit the page. This always ends up in the same action which
does some processing and fowards on to different location depending
where the page was embedded. Is there anything in request that would
tell me where the page came from... if not I'd think to pass a source
variable in the form which would tell me this. Can anyone offer a
better solution?
thx -D

You can get the referring URL from the request header, but this is pretty
unreliable. Some browsers and/or firewalls remove this value depending on
security settings.

String referringUrl = request.getHeader("Referer"); // yes, only one 'r'

I'd go with passing a source page value.