Accessing a jsp through a servlet problem

[Matt Fry]

Howdy all. I got this nitpick back a few days ago:

Rather than going directly to the jsp, you should make all your access to jsp pages pass through the servlet. Your URL should look something like this:

/videos/servlet/VideoServlet?action=addvideo

OK. I've tried this and can't get it to work. Perhaps because I don't fully understand what it's doing, maybe (I don't remember reading much about it in Head First Servlets & JSP). But anyway, all it does when I write the URL like that is to reload the listvideos.jsp page (which is where this link is written). I can't seem to get it to load the addvideo.jsp page no matter how I write the URL (I've tried .../VideoServlet?action=addvideo.jsp, .../VideoServlet?action=addvideo, .../VideoServlet?forward=addvideo.jsp, etc.).

Any suggestions, help, advise, etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Do you have an "action" in your servlet that matches the "action" in the url? Otherwise, the servlet will do the "default" action.

[Matt Fry]

Man, that was a tough one (for me anyways). Had to dig a little bit but learned several things I didn't know and had just taken for granted. Thanks!