Java HttpServletRequest get URL in browsers URL bar

Question

So I\'m trying to grab the current URL of the page using Java\'s request object. I\'ve been using request.getRequestURI() to preform this, but I noticed that when a java cla

Answer 1

To get the HTTP requested path without know the state of the internal flow of the request, use this method:

public String getUri(HttpServletRequest request) {
    String r = (String) request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
    return r == null ? request.getRequestURI() : r;
}

Answer 2

${requestScope['javax.servlet.forward.query_string']} -- if you access it form jsp, using Expression Language

Answer 3

Just did a slight tidy of the solution by Ballsacian1

String currentURL = null;
if( request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri") != null ){
    currentURL = (String)request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
}
if( currentURL != null && request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.include.query_string") != null ){
    currentURL += "?" + request.getQueryString();
}

The null checks are going to run a lot more efficiently than String comparisons.

Answer 4

String activePage = "";
    // using getAttribute allows us to get the orginal url out of the page when a forward has taken place.
    String queryString = "?"+request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.query_string");
    String requestURI = ""+request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
    if(requestURI == "null") {
        // using getAttribute allows us to get the orginal url out of the page when a include has taken place.
        queryString = "?"+request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.include.query_string");
        requestURI = ""+request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.include.request_uri");
    }
    if(requestURI == "null") {
        queryString = "?"+request.getQueryString();
        requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
    }
    if(queryString.equals("?null")) queryString = "";
    activePage = requestURI+queryString;

Answer 5

Same answer as @kdgregory, but you can rather use the Request Dispatcher constants.

javax.servlet.include.request_uri        RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_REQUEST_URI
javax.servlet.include.context_path       RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_CONTEXT_PATH
javax.servlet.include.servlet_path       RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_SERVLET_PATH
javax.servlet.include.path_info          RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_PATH_INFO
javax.servlet.include.query_string       RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_QUERY_STRING

Answer 6

If your current request is coming from an "inside the app-server" forward or include, the app-server is expected to preserve request information as request attributes. The specific attributes, and what they contain, depends on whether you're doing a forward or an include.

For <jsp:include>, the original parent URL will be returned by request.getRequestURL(), and information about the included page will be found in the following request attributes:

     javax.servlet.include.request_uri
     javax.servlet.include.context_path
     javax.servlet.include.servlet_path
     javax.servlet.include.path_info
     javax.servlet.include.query_string

For <jsp:forward>, the new URL will be returned by request.getRequestURL(), and the original request's information will be found in the following request attributes:

     javax.servlet.forward.request_uri
     javax.servlet.forward.context_path
     javax.servlet.forward.servlet_path
     javax.servlet.forward.path_info
     javax.servlet.forward.query_string

These are set out in section 8.3 and 8.4 of the Servlet 2.4 specification.

However, be aware that this information is only preserved for internally-dispatched requests. If you have a front-end web-server, or dispatch outside of the current container, these values will be null. In other words, you may have no way to find the original request URL.