I want to redirect a page in server side (using spring), but the URL should remain the same.
For ex: if user tries http://www.example.com/page1, I want to render content of http://www.example.com/page2 in browser but the URL should still point to http://www.example.com/page1.
I tried 301, 302, 307 redirects, but all page URLs are changing to http://www.example.com/page2.
Is there anyway to achieve this?
It's a problem of terminology. What you're looking for is forward rather than redirect. If you're interested you may want to look that up e.g. here: http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=181.
There are at least two ways of doing this:
Traditional, RequestDispatcher can be used outside a Spring WebMVC application, too.
public class MyController extends AbstractController {
@Override
protected void handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception {
request.getRequestDispatcher("/new/path").forward(request, response);
}
}
Spring WebMVC notation:
public class MyController extends AbstractController {
@Override
protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception {
return new ModelAndView("forward:/new/path");
}
}
