Question

I am grabbing some data from a page using the code below:

int clientId = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("clientId"));

I have tried surrounding it with try/catch and then redirecting in the catch block using response.sendRedirect("page.jsp"); but the page does not re-direct, it seems to want to finish the whole script (which in turn throws more errors because the initial variables aren’t valid!). Am I missing something basic here?

Answer 1

You are perhaps missing a return statement (although I don’t see your code):

response.sendRedirect(..);
return;

If you simply call sendRedirect(..) this will set the Location http header, and an http status, but will not affect the flow of the current method, and it will continue.