From the course: Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
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Understanding redirection
From the course: Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Understanding redirection
- [Woman] Let us now talk about the redirection concept in the servlet specification. If you look at our websites landing page, there are a lot of hyperlinks at the top right corner. One of them has been labeled as LinkedIn. My requirement is that when I click on this hyperlink, it should take me to the LinkedIn website. This exactly is the idea of redirection. So let's take a look at it. When we talk about redirection, it means we are handing over the control outside the current application context. The current application context for our goals is H plus sport, and from there we want to go now to the LinkedIn website. This is how the flow will look. There's a client, whose going to click on the hyperlink of LinkedIn. When the request goes to App Context One, which is the H plus sport application, the application is going to understand that this request is for LinkedIn and I would not be able to serve it. So what it does is it gives a response back to the client stating two things…
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