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JSP question - jsp:forward vs. "refresh"

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Lynn Hollerman

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Nickname: gmholler
Registered: Mar, 2002

JSP question - jsp:forward vs. "refresh"

Posted: Jun 30, 2004 11:16 AM

I am currently trying to understand some JSPs on the system here, and after running thru several JSP tutorials on-line and reading some books on JSPs, I found something in the code I can't find the answer to. Since JSPs often involve HTML, in several places there's code along the lines of:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=xxxxxxx.jsp">

but wouldn't a <jsp:forward page="/xxxxxxx.jsp" /> work? Is there a compelling reason for using one over the other - as in, does one create problems or anything like that?

Thanks!

Lynn.

Jeroen Wenting

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Nickname: jwenting
Registered: Mar, 2004

Re: JSP question - jsp:forward vs. "refresh"

Posted: Jul 1, 2004 12:08 AM


<META REFRESH ...> is executed on the client after the specified interval.

<jsp:forward .../> is executed on the server, the client never sees the page being forwarded from.

<jsp:forward .../> is mainly of interest for controllers and to forward to for example a custom error page

Lynn Hollerman

Posts: 67
Nickname: gmholler
Registered: Mar, 2002

Re: JSP question - jsp:forward vs. "refresh"

Posted: Jul 1, 2004 7:39 AM

Thanks for the reply!

Is one method preferred over the other?

Thanks again!

Lynn.

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