Redirection and forwarding in servlets

[Tony romer]

Hi,
I write some contents to response out object but did not flush or commit.

Then I get dispatcher and forward it?

OR I use response.sendRedirect?

What are the results?

[Bryan Basham]

Hi Tony,

It depends upon how much content servlet pushed to the response writer (or output stream). The web container will buffer some content and throw that content away if the servlet forwards to a ReqDisp or does a redirect.

However, if the servlet pushed more content than the buffer can hold, then the web container is required to commit that buffer (and the response header) to the browser. After that has happened, any attempt to forward or redirect will fail.

Regards,
Bryan
[ July 24, 2008: Message edited by: Bryan Basham ]

[Tony romer]

Thats great answer.
Thank you