Spring-MVC controller redirect to “previous” page?

Question

Let\'s say I\'ve got a form for editing the properties of a Pony, and in my web application there are multiple places where you can choose to edit a Pony. For instance, in a li

Answer 1

one other option would be to design your urls so they reveal the context of what you're doing, and by convention, would allow you to "know" where the start of an operation was.

For example, you could have urls like so

site/section1/pony/edit
site/section1/pony/delete

site/somewhere/else/entirely/pony/edit
site/somewhere/else/entirely/pony/delete

both those urls allow pony editing and deleting. To go back to the start for both of them, you'd simply go "up" 2 folders. This could be done via a javascript function that looks at the current url, and just goes up 2 folders, or you could figure it out on the server side 2, and do a redirect like that as well.