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Asked: 2026-06-06T12:29:48+00:00

I have three JSPs named a.jsp , b.jsp and c.jsp . From a.jsp I

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I have three JSPs named a.jsp , b.jsp and c.jsp.

From a.jsp I am going to b.jsp .

Then the following code in b.jsp request.getHeader("Referer") returns a.jsp

Again from b.jsp I am going to c.jsp .

From c.jsp I am pressing browser back button to come to b.jsp.

Then again the following code in b.jsp request.getHeader("Referer") returns a.jsp

Why is it not returning c.jsp ?

Is there any way so that I can get c.jsp on the browser back button.

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  1. Editorial Team

    the reason could be that your page is cached.

    you can check the http header by using firebug.

    check out http request header

    UPDATE 1

    I have created a new project with a.jsp, b.jsp, c.jsp, here is the code:

    a.jsp:

    <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" language="java"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>a</h1>
        <a href="b.jsp">b</a><br/>
        <a href="c.jsp">c</a><br/>
        <b><%=request.getHeader("Referer")%></b>
    </body>
</html>

    b.jsp

    <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>b</h1>
        <a href="a.jsp">a</a><br/>
        <a href="c.jsp">c</a><br/>
        <b><%=request.getHeader("Referer")%></b>
    </body>
</html>

    c.jsp

    <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8" language="java"%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>JSP Page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>c</h1>
        <a href="a.jsp">a</a><br/>
        <a href="b.jsp">b</a><br/>
        <b><%=request.getHeader("Referer")%></b>
    </body>
</html>

    It works well. you can create a new project with the code, and test it. i am not sure, what is your situation, maybe you are using AJAX, then the referer will only should URL of the last whole page.

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