URLrewriting

[A Kumar]

Hi,
For servlets...we have encodeURL for url rewriting...in case cookies are disbled at client side...

But how to do the same if only jsp's are involved...


Regards

[Darren Edwards]

Assuming you have JSTL available within your JSP

<a href="<c:url value="/runAction.do" />">Run Action</a>

Be aware that it will not encode GET parameters in the same way encodeURL does - you have to do the following

<c:url value="/runAction.do">
    <c:param name="param1" value="value1" />
</c:url>

[A Kumar]

Hi Darren,

Thanks for the response....
I wanted to know about the pre-JSTL days..How they used to do it?

Regards

[ramprasad madathil]

I wanted to know about the pre-JSTL days..How they used to do it?

You could very easily write a custom tag. Or else write in a scriptlet, the exact code that you would, if it were a Servlet (though it would undoubtedly clutter your jsp code)

ram.

[A Kumar]

So the solution...was ....

writing the same code that would be there in servlet ...as in a scriptlet section of a jsp...

Is it so???

[Stefan Evans]

You could do it with scriptlet expression
<a href="<%= response.encodeURL("/user/save.jsp") %>"> Save </a>

No it doesn't look nice. And people often forgot to do it.
Hence custom tags which take care of it for you ;-)

[A Kumar]

Thanks Stefan!!!