Can't redirect to another page

I tried the following code to redirect to another page

where location is the variable containing the new url. it opens new window but never redirected. When I placed a test message the message was infinitly writtin to the console

When I tried using href instead it works

But I don't the user to click to be redirected to the new page I want to redirect automatically. Can anyone see where I'm wrong?

Nada Bajnaid wrote: When I placed a test message the message was infinitly writtin to the console

Dont you smell something here? *from where to where*, you are redirecting?

I call this servlet from another servlet to do some action then redirect to the new page. I'll paste my code here

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
  try
  {
     name = (String) request.getParameter("name");
     lo = (String) request.getParameter("lo");
     location = (String) request.getParameter("location");
  }
  catch (Exception e)
  {
    System.out.println("Error in initialization");
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
		
   System.out.println(name+" consumed " + lo);  // the test message
   response.setContentType("text/html");
   PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
   out.println("<html>");
   out.println("<head>");
   out.println("<title>"+lo+"</title>");
   //out.println ("<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" content=2; url=\""+location+"\">"+"</meta>");
		
   out.println("</head>");
   out.println("<body  bgColor = '#817679'>");
   out.println("Please wait while we direct you to "+lo); 
   out.print("<br> If you are not redirected in 5 seconds please ");
   out.println("<a href=\""+location+"\">"+" click here</a>");
  //out.println ("<meta HTTP-EQUIV='REFRESH' content=0; url=location>"+"</meta>");

out.println("</body>");
   out.println("</html>");
}

you can see that I comented the statement with the meta tag as I didn't work for me and use the href instead

what is the value of location = (String) request.getParameter("location"); ?

it is a string containing the new URL. You can see it works with the href tag

formation of meta tag has problem, replace yours with below one.
out.println ("<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" content=\"2; url="+location+"\">"+"</meta>");

Yes finaly it works. Many thanks

Nada Bajnaid wrote:Yes finaly it works. Many thanks

You are welcome

It is all about location... ;)

Hi,
Please use Request Dispatcher or send redirect methods .