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servlet name in url. how to get rid?

adeeb alexander
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Hi.
I have a servlet which takes values from loing.jsp, if the user is found the page is forwarded to home.jsp. The problem is I am getting the servlet name in the url, which is unnecessary for me, due to that the user will know the servlet name also. So how can i get rid of that. Show me the easiest way, please.


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Kumaravadivel Subramani
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By knowing the servlet name the user cannot do anything if original servlet name has mapped appropriately in web.xml file. Actually the mapped servlet name only will be displayed, if you have not configured then it would be a problem.


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adeeb alexander
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K. He cant do anything. But when i am on home.jsp, it still show as Login(servlet name). I want to see the real path of jsp. Is that not possible???
Chetan Dorle
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That might be because you have called Servlet Login and in the Login you have forwarded request and response to the home.jsp

In the forward() your browser URL will never change.

Anyone correct me if I am wrong...

Thanks..
Bear Bibeault
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I'm still trying to understand what the problem is. What's the issue? Why is it a problem if the servlet mapping shows in the URL?


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Koen Aerts
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I'm not quite sure I fully understand the issue here... but in your web.xml you can change the url to servlet mapping, so you could change the url for each servlet to something else, if that is what you want.
 
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