Are URL parameters (GET) not resent when you do a response.sendRedirect()?

[Steffen Hauser]

Is this right? The URL parameters (GET) are not resent to the new resource?

Example:

http://localhost:80/myapp/myservlet01?param01=helloworld calls my servlet's doGet()-method. There I do a

response.sendRedirect("myservlet02");

The second call from my browser is then http://localhost:80/myapp/myservlet02, without the ?param01=helloworld parameter.

Is this right? And why is this?

[William Brogden]

Of course they are not. You are redirecting to a new URL - if you want it to have parameters you have to compose the URL that way.

Redirect causes a whole new request, old request is done.

Bill