Getting URL's from the server for use in the sevlet.

[William Wild]

Hi all,
How can you retreive the context URL (in the form http://xx ort/yy/) from within the servlet?
I need to be able to use it as the start of the xsl-t stylesheet url to embed in my xml data. Unfortunatly, all I have found are methods with in ServletContext, but they do not return the http:// section, only the paths from the context root or system paths.
Does anyone know of a method that I can use to get the full url path??
Kind regards
Simon

[William Wild]

I will answer my own question here, incase anyone else has the same problem. With much calling of every method I could find I came up with this solution.
If the call from the client is in post form then this should work.

  
String urlName = new String(request.getScheme() + "://" + request.getServerName() + ":" + request.getServerPort() + request.getContextPath() + "/stylesheets/" + xsltFileName);

If anyone knows of an other solution that may be a bit more portable I would be greatful.
Cheers
Bill

[preveeth ott]

hi
try
HttpUtils.getRequestURL(request)
followed by some string manipulating, u should be able to get the result
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