HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL

Question

I am getting the error HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL when I use the following code(below) ... the line causing the trouble (ap

Answer 1

_{(sorry about the wrong answer I posted before, I deleted it).}

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Apparently the URL /EditObject is mapped on another servlet which doesn't have doPost() method overriden. It would be called on RequestDispatcher#forward() as well because the method of currently running HTTP request is POST. The default HttpServlet#doPost() implementation will return HTTP 405. If your actual intent is to fire a GET request on it so that the doGet() method will be invoked, then you should rather use HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect() instead.

response.sendRedirect("/EditObject?id="+objId);