html:rewrite without the rewrite ?

[Rich Smyth]

Is there an equivalent to the struts <html:rewrite> tag that does not rewrite the url? I'd like to get the path of a global forward exactly as it is defined in my struts-config (without the jsessionid appended).
I can remove the ";jsessionid=whatever" myself but I was wondering if there was a an existing tag that did the job.
Rich

[Marc Peabody]

I think you answered your own question.

 
<!-- Global Forwards -->
<global-forwards>
<forward name="nosession" path="my/file/path.p"></forward>
</global-forwards>

and

<!-- JSP -->
<html:rewrite forward="nosession"/>

prints an output of my/file/path.p
exactly as it is written in the global-forwards.

[Marc Peabody]

Now that I think of it, perhaps you were thinking of how HttpServletResponse.encodeURL() works by tacking on the JSESSIONID.
html:rewrite is different
Cheers!

[Rich Smyth]

Let me add the following detail.
I detected my problem because my page was not locating its stylesheet. When I did a view source I saw that my LINK tag has been rendered as
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:/projects/name/styles/test.css;jsessionid=7FB297FF2333933969916E218C4C56F2">
as you can see, the jsessionid has been added as though HttpServletResponse.encodeURL was involved.

In my jsp I have:
<LINK rel="stylesheet" type"text/css" href="<html:rewrite forward='testStyle'/>">
where testStyle is defined as a global forward.
Is this how the tag is supposed to behave?
Rich