Mixing JSPs and HTML (II)

[Carl Crosswhite]

Can jsp:forward be used to forward to an HTML?

i.e., <jsp:forward page="/schedule/index.html" />

[Larne Pekowsky]

In article <399a964d$1@news.devx.com>,
Carl Crosswhite <Carlxw@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Can jsp:forward be used to forward to an HTML?
>
>i.e., <jsp:forward page="/schedule/index.html" />

Yes, with one caveat. According to section 2.5.2 of the spec:

When a path starts with a "/" it is to be interpreted by the application
to which the JSP page belongs; i.e its ServletContext object provides
the base context URL.

What this means in practice is that if you have a web application
installed as /myapp, and you want to forward to /myapp/somedir/index.html,
your tag would look like:

<jsp:forward page="/somedir/index.html" />

that is, without the /myapp. You can not redirect to a different web
application with jsp:forward, although you can with a regular HTTP
redirect.

The same goes for jsp:include - you can include an HTML page or output
of a servlet in a JSP.

- Larne