encodeURL methods

hi All
I have a question about the encodeURL and encodeRedirectURL, what is the diference between them and why if I put

<a href="<% response.encodeURL("sessions.jsp"); %>">link</a>

why this link points to another direction that is not the JSP

I don't really know what you mean by that, but you shouldn't be using scriptlets in a JSP at all. You should be using the JSTL's <c:url> tag to create properly encoded URLs.

Please read this this JspFaq entry.

Bear Bibeault wrote:I don't really know what you mean by that, but you shouldn't be using scriptlets in a JSP at all. You should be using the JSTL's <c:url> tag to create properly encoded URLs.

Please read this this JspFaq entry.

I'am reading the book "Head Firts in Servlets and JSP" and the book put this code

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException {
response.setContentType(“text/html”);
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
out.println(“<html><body>”);
out.println(“click me”);
out.println(“</body></html>”);
}

and Say " if you
don’t explicitly encode your URLs, and the client won’t accept cookies,
you don’t get to use sessions. If you do encode your URLs, the Container
will first attempt to use cookies for session management, and fall back to URL
rewriting only if the cookie approach fails."

My question is what is the diference between response.encodeURL() and encodeRedirectURL(), because in the book are very similar this methods?

Have you checked the javadoc?

Hi,

Please check out this link

Regards,
Vishal

thank you very much is what I wanted

Vishal Shaw wrote:Hi,

Please check out this link

Regards,
Vishal

response.encodeURL("somevalue") -> here encodeURL will add extra session ID info to the end of the URL.
but if you want to redirect to some other URL and still want to maintain session then use response.encodeRedirectURL("somevalue").