Getting Bad Request

[Akshay Singhvi]

Hello Ranchers,
In my application i have a jsp in which i 'm writing a line

      <html:link href="./displayDepartment.do?methodToCall=displayDepartment"  styleClass="subnavigation">Department</html:link>

When i click on the link it gives HTTP 400 bad request error:

the struts-config.xml file has the entry :

    
<action path = "/displayDepartment" 
type = "com.mmm.wcw.web.admin.department.DepartmentLoadAction" 
parameter="methodToCall"
name = "departmentLoadForm">
 <forward name = "manageDept" path = "/pages/searchDepartments.jsp" /> 
</action>

The action class has the method displayDepartment

 
    public ActionForward displayDepartment(ActionMapping mapping, 
            ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, 
            HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
        return mapping.findForward("manageDept");
    }   

What's wrong in this?

[Merrill Higginson]

In this case, I'd suggest using the page attribute of <html:link> rather than the href. While href evaluates the URI the same as an <a> html tag would, page evaluates it relative to the context root. For more information, see the heading "link" in this document.

In your example, the code would be:

<html:link page="/displayDepartment.do?methodToCall=displayDepartment"  styleClass="subnavigation">Department</html:link>

[Arulanand Dayalan]

I think you need to redirect to jsp without performing any loginc.In that case you can try this, index.jsp in the jsp you need to redirect.

    
<html:link action="home">Home</html:link>
 
 <action
            path="/home"
            type="org.apache.struts.actions.ForwardAction"
            parameter="/index.jsp"
            />

Hope this helps.

Thanks and Regards,
Arul.

[Akshay Singhvi]

I tried this:

 
 <html:link page="/displayDepartment.do?methodToCall=displayDepartment"  styleClass="subnavigation">Department</html:link>
 

But i'm getting a blank page with this in the address bar :
http://localhost:9080/wcw/displayDepartment.do?methodToCall=displayDepartment

what is wrong in this???

[Merrill Higginson]

The most likely cause of this problem is that the execute method of the com.mmm.wcw.web.admin.department.DepartmentLoadAction class may be returning a null ActionForward. Put some System.out.println statements in your code to display the ActionForward just before it's returned and see if maybe this is the case.