Request Dispatcher issue

[komyg]

I have a HttpServlet that needs to send a html page when the browser calls it's doGet method, but this html page is not on the WebContent directory nor any of it's folders.

My doGet method looks like this:

ServletContext cont=super.getServletContext();

response.setContentType("text/html");

RequestDispatcher req=null;

req=cont.getRequestDispatcher("/build/gwtOutput/com.opus.Demo/Demo.html");

req.forward(request, response);

Where request is a HttpServletResquest interface, response is a HttpServletResponse interface and the path in the getRequestDispatcher method leads to the html file itself.

When I deploy the servlet using tomcat I get this error message:

The requested resource (/Demo/build/gwtOutput/com.opus.Demo/Demo.html) is not available.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Komyg

 

[Diancecht]

I don't see the point of a servlet pointing to an static page. Anyway, I'd take a look at sendRedirect method.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[komyg]

Well the thing is that I am using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) to generate this Demo.html, so it is not a static page.

I am using a GWT plugin Googlipse and it generates the html output page into a folder that is outside the WebContent.

I've tryed to use the sendRedirect, so I've typed the same path I used for the request dispatcher, but it didin't work out.

Do you have another suggestion?

Thanks,
Komyg

 

[Diancecht]

What was the error?

The next step is reading the html file and write the contents to the response.

Anyway, what about pointing to the generated html page?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[komyg]

GWT doesn't generates just 1 html page it is several and they are all conncted.

As for the error it was the same as before:

HTTP Status 404 - /Demo3RPC/build/gwtOutput/com.opus.Demo/Demo.html

type Status report

message /Demo3RPC/build/gwtOutput/com.opus.Demo/Demo.html

description The requested resource (/Demo3RPC/build/gwtOutput/com.opus.Demo/Demo.html) is not available.

Where Demo is my project and Demo3RPC is my servlet.

Thanks,
Komyg

 

[Diancecht]

404 is forbidden: the end user has no access to the genereted page, what's correct considering its outside the scope of the web application.

Did you try the second sollution? Anyway, I don't think it will work because there are many pages. I'd try getting the pages into the aweb applicattion.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[sedj]

this html page is not on the WebContent directory nor any of it's folders.

Hence the 404.

How do you expect the server to serve up a page that does not exist ?

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