redirecting the request to URL

[Shakti Sharma]

I want to redirect the request to url in different application through https. Problem is I cannot use request.sendRedirect because contents of the original request, such as POST parameters, will be lost. Is there any alternative.
Thanks

[Gaurav Jain]

use the requestdispatcher.forward() method.

[Shakti Sharma]

requestdispatcher.forward() method only works when you are forwarding the request in same application. In my case I am trying to forward request to another application.

[Shakti Sharma]

Originally posted by Gaurav Jain:
use the requestdispatcher.forward() method.

[danny liu]

Use URL rewriting

[Brahim Bakayoko]

Originally posted by danny liu:
Use URL rewriting

URL rewriting is for session management.
Use a HttpClient to make a new post request.

[Shakti Sharma]

Hi Brahim,
Can you explain what is HTTPClient and how to use it.
Thanks
Shak

[Brahim Bakayoko]

Originally posted by Shakti Sharma:
Hi Brahim,
Can you explain what is HTTPClient and how to use it.
Thanks
Shak

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/
You can also use an URLConnection object.

[Nitin Mehhta]

requestdispatcher.forward() can be used to call requests from a different application also. For that you need to have the servlet context of that aaplication. I do not have the exact code with me, but i know that it can be done. Would try to post the exact code when i get hold of it.

[Hemanth Presingu]

You can write a java httpclient to forward the request to another servlet in a different JVM.

URL url = new URL("http://www.xyz.com/anotherservlet");
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
urlConn.setUseCaches(false);
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(urlConn.getInputStream());
in.close();

-Hemanth