response.sendRedirect not working

Question

The method response.sendRedirect() is not working in my program.

The code go through and sucessfully print out.println(\"wrong user\");, but the redirec

Answer 1

HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect() works like this:

• if the URL is absolute http://www.google.com , it redirects to http://www.google.com.
• If the URL is not absolute , it redirects relative to the current URL. If the URL starts with / it redirects relative to the context root, Else it redirects to the current url

Based on above rules in your case it redirects to http://currenturl/www.google.com.

Instead modify your code like this

response.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com");
return;

Answer 2

Try providing the protocol.

response.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com");
return;

Answer 3

You should return after redirecting.

response.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com");
return;

It does not return automatically after calling sendRedirect().

Answer 4

Try this

<% response.sendRedirect("http://www.google.com/"); %>