passing a value through hyperlink in JSP page

[vady williams]

I have a very simple jsp page first.jsp that gives reference to so many other jsp pages through hyperlink. i am trying to pass a value through the hyperlink in first.jsp and retrieve it in second.jsp using request.getparameter(). i used:

<a href="second.jsp?value=1">Second JSP</a> 

and in the second.jsp page i used

alert( "value = " + <%= request.getParameter("value") %>);

but when i try to run the code and click on Second JSP i get a 404 page not found error for :second.jsp?value=1 Please help

P.S i know scriplets are not the correct way of doing but this is just a simple one and since i am new to coding i would like to try this first

[Bear Bibeault]

A 404 has nothing to do with the parameter. The base URL is somehow wrong.

[Vishal Baid]

Yes. The URL is wrong. The resource which you are requesting for is not present in your project.

[Amit Ghorpade]

The wrong URL maybe due to reasons like spelling mistake and wrong physical location (different directory, wrong directory,etc).

Hope this helps :)