Hide servlet name in the url

Question

In a website I have some links in a navbar like this

<li><a href="?page=pagename">PAGE</a></li>

and I load the linked page with JAVA in JSP page, then I submit data through a form by GET, after this my URL become

www.sitename.com/Servlet

then I'm not able to load the page by

?page=pagename

because I have the Servlet name in the URL.

How I can hide or delete the servlet name?

it will be good if you can provide some more code to understand — Arjit, Mar 12 '14 at 15:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 12 '14 at 15:33

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Use a servlet-mapping in your web.xml:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Servlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
</servlet-mapping>

answered Mar 12 '14 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '14 at 07:38

it's easier if all those JSPs are in a common path. E.g. /app/*.

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>app</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.example.FriendlyURLServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>app</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/app/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

with

request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF" + request.getPathInfo() + ".jsp").forward(request, response);

This assumes the JSPs to be in /WEB-INF folder so that they cannot be requested directly. This will show /WEB-INF/search.jsp on http://example.com/app/search.

Hide servlet name in the url

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