Re: Redirect Request in FileResource?

This worked quite well, thank you!!

Paul.

Benoit Mahe wrote:

> > In a subclass of FileResource I may determine that I want to redirect the request to
> > another file -- is this possible?  Yes, I can change the filename & return the content of the
> > other file, but this would bypass security & any file processing that may be done earlier in
> > the request process.
> >
> > What is the proper way to redirect an HTTP request (in Jigsaw)?
> >
> > Paul.
> > --
> >
>
>  If you want to make a HTTP redirect with the MOVED_TEMPORARILY or
>  MOVED_PERMANENTLY reply code, look at w3c.jigsaw.resources.RelocateResource
>  otherwise the way to do an internal redirect could be :
>
>  public Reply perform(Request request)
>     throws HTTPException, ClientException
>   {
>     Reply        reply  = null;
>     httpd        server = getServer();
>     String target = "/foo/bar/toto.html"; //the resource to redirect the
> request
>     request.setReferer(getURLPath());
>
>     try {
>       request.setURL( new URL(server.getURL(), target));
>     } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
>       Reply error = request.makeReply(HTTP.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
>       error.setContent("<html><head><title>Server Error</title>"+
>                        "</head><body><h1>Server misconfigured</h1>"+
>                        "<p>The resource <b>"+getIdentifier()+"</b>"+
>                        "has an invalid target attribute : <p><b>"+
>                        getTarget()+"</b></body></html>");
>       throw new HTTPException (error);
>     }
>     return server.perform(request);
>   }
>  
>  
>  
>
> - Benoît Mahé -------------------------------------------------------
> World Wide Web Consortium         bmahe@w3.org, bmahe@sophia.inria.fr
> Architecture domain - Jigsaw Team               tel : 04 93 65 79 89
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

  
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Received on Thursday, 30 October 1997 10:42:52 UTC