Get URL of page requested that caused a 404

Question

How would I get the URL of the page that was requested that caused the 404 error?

For example, I type I go to http://example.com/path/does/not/exist/index.jsp I alre

Answer 1

I'm using JDK 8 and GlassFish 4, and

request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri")

always returned null for me. What eventually did work was

request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.request_uri")

I'm not sure why the attribute name is different, but in case the name I listed doesn't work on your setup, here's the code I used to find it...

    Enumeration<String> names = request.getAttributeNames();

    while(names.hasMoreElements()){
        String name = names.nextElement();
        Object attr = request.getAttribute(name);

        System.out.println("Req:  "+name + " : "+attr);
    }

Answer 2

If forward was used to go to the error page, you can obtain the original request URL by

request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri")

or by EL

${requestScope['javax.servlet.forward.request_uri']}