Hi Chris, This is exactly the answer I was looking for. Thank you for your help.
Cheers, Danny On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 10:51 -0500, Christopher Schultz wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill, > > Bill Barker wrote: > > Tomcat always sends a 302 redirect when response.sendRedirect(newURL); is > > called. However, a lot of user-agents wrongly follow the redirect with a > > GET when the initial request was a POST. > > Actually, this behavior is basically grandfathered-into the HTTP > specification. See section 10.3.3 of the HTTP/1.1 spec: > > "If the 302 status code is received in response to a request other than > GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request > unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might change the > conditions under which the request was issued. > > Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed > to change the method on the redirected request. However, most > existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303 > response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless > of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have > been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which > kind of reaction is expected of the client. > " > > Since the servlet specification does not say which redirection code > should be used with response.sendRedirect (though it is pretty much > always implemented as a 302), you will have to use response.setHeader > and response.sendError with the code you prefer. I'm pretty sure you > want to use either 303 or 307 and not 302 due to its inconsistent > implementation. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHNyTx9CaO5/Lv0PARAgb6AKCI3eiqPBM2IQ8+XfUwxH4yNGT85QCeIGF2 > G1vMEtBhAU+nJVClTOPU9JQ= > =7PAC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
