Get Referer URL in Spring MVC

Question

How can I get the referer URL in Spring MVC Controller?

Answer 1

In Spring MVC 3 you can get it from request, as @BalusC already said:

public ModelAndView doSomething(final HttpServletRequest request) {
    final String referer = request.getHeader("referer");
    ...
}

but there also exists special annotation @RequestHeader which allow to simplify your code to

public ModelAndView doSomething(@RequestHeader(value = "referer", required = false) final String referer) {
    ...
}