Mask urls in JSP

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I want to have masked URLs in this JSP Java EE web project. For example if I had this:

Answer 1

It's been a while since I mucked about with JSPs, but if memory serves you can add URL patterns to your web.xml (or one of those XML config files) and have the servlet engine automatically route the request to a valid URL with your choice of paramters. I can look up the details if you like.

In your case, map http://mysite.com/product-Programming-Book to the URL http://mysite.com/products.jsp?id=42&name=Programming_Book and the user no longer sees the real URL. Also, you can use this more user-friendly URL within your application, as a logical name for that page.

Yuval =8-)