Re: prevent direct access to JSP

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:37:04 -0400
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Robert Watkins wrote:

Reading the API, it looks as if this should have been the behaviour
all along, but that's moot. The question is: How can I prevent direct
access to the JSP in another way?


Tom Hawtin <usenet@tackline.plus.com> wrote in

Put the JSP under /WEB-INF/.


Robert Watkins wrote:

Hmmm -- must be something I'm missing, because I get a 404 error:

  The requested resource (/path/page.jsp) is not available.


It is for the correct value of 'path'.

Does the forward path have to change?


It has to include the WEB-INF/ path node.

Either:

  RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
     request.getRequestDispatcher( "/application/WEB-INF/page.jsp" );

or just

  RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
     request.getRequestDispatcher( "WEB-INF/page.jsp" );

I usually use relative paths (always down from current, never up).

BTW, if you had provided an SSCCE instead of paraphrasing as 'path',
'page.jsp', etc., you'd have had a much clearer question. Notice how
hand-waving over 'path' actually obscured the issue?

--
Lew

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