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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:06:18+00:00

This seems like a pretty basic question but I unfortunately don’t know the answer

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This seems like a pretty basic question but I unfortunately don’t know the answer and can’t seem to find it.

I’m trying to understand the lifecycle of an initial POST/GET to a Java 6 server running Spring 2.5 on Tomcat 6.

I noticed that for an HttpServletRequest, request.getRequestURL() in a controller returns the original request to which it is mapped (ex. “http://localhost:8080/computers/accessories.html”). That same invocation in the corresponding JSP returns the path to the JSP itself (ex. “http://localhost:8080/WEB-INF/jsp/category.jsp”). I was expecting to see the original HTML request!

Am I missing something?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This behavior is specified in the api doc:

    If this request has been forwarded using
    RequestDispatcher.forward(javax.servlet.ServletRequest,
    javax.servlet.ServletResponse), the server path in the reconstructed
    URL must reflect the path used to obtain the RequestDispatcher, and
    not the server path specified by the client.

    Look at getRequestURI.

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