Redirecting a request using servlets and the “setHeader” method not working

Question

I am new to servlet development, and I was reading an ebook, and found that I can redirect to a different web page using

setHeader(\"Location\", \"http://ww         


        

Answer 1

As you can see, the response is still HTTP/1.1 200 OK. To indicate a redirect, you need to send back a 302 status code:

response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_FOUND); // SC_FOUND = 302

Answer 2

Oh no no! That's not how you redirect. It's far more simpler:

public class ModHelloWorld extends HttpServlet{
    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException{
        response.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com");
    }
}

Also, it's a bad practice to write HTML code within a servlet. You should consider putting all that markup into a JSP and invoking the JSP using:

response.sendRedirect("/path/to/mynewpage.jsp");

Answer 3

Another way of doing this if you want to redirect to any url source after the specified point of time

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import java.io.*;

public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet


{

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException

{

response.setContentType("text/html");

PrintWriter pw=response.getWriter();

pw.println("<b><centre>Redirecting to Google<br>");


response.setHeader("refresh,"5;https://www.google.com/"); // redirects to url  after 5 seconds


pw.close();
}

}

Answer 4

Alternatively, you could try the following,

resp.setStatus(301);
resp.setHeader("Location", "index.jsp");
resp.setHeader("Connection", "close");