What is the cgi-bin equivalent of getRequestDispatcher ("/ myURL"). Forward (request, response)?

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What is the cgi-bin equivalent of getRequestDispatcher ("/ myURL"). Forward (request, response)?

I am using #! / Bin / sh as my language.

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shell cgi-bin

Chris B 02 oct. 09 at 14:50

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I'll just call it like

myURL

because all the CGI data will be in environment variables (not sure about the POST request though)

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catwalk 02 oct. '09 at 15:05

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mlathe · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-28T21:02:00+0000

Doing a redirect would be easy. Just return the correct HTTP header like:

Location: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html

The problem is that the user will see the URL change in their browser.

Technically, a "redirect" is an internal redirect, which is usually supported by your framework (ie the servlet API you specify). I think to get "inner-forward" to work in #! / Bin / sh you will need to do something like this (psuedocode)

# before i've printed anything to the output
if "should i forward"
  my_other_cgi_page.sh
  exit
fi

What is the cgi-bin equivalent of getRequestDispatcher ("/ myURL"). Forward (request, response)?

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