Get the current URL with JavaScript?

Question

All I want is to get the website URL. Not the URL as taken from a link. On the page loading I need to be able to grab the full, current URL of the website and set it as a va

Answer 1

In jstl we can access the current URL path using pageContext.request.contextPath. If you want to do an Ajax call, use the following URL.

url = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}" + "/controller/path"

Example: For the page http://stackoverflow.com/posts/36577223 this will give http://stackoverflow.com/controller/path.