how to get URL from address bar in JSP

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Lets say I hit

http://localhost/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/marksandspencer/l/women/dresses/party-and-cocktail-dresses

and this internally redirects me to custom 404.jsp page, But URL remain same in address bar.

I tried this code - <%= request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri") %>; and it's returning me the path of 404.jsp

How can I get the entered URL which is there in address bar?

possible duplicate of [Get full URL and query string in Servlet for both HTTP and HTTPS requests](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16675191/get-full-url-and-query-string-in-servlet-for-both-http-and-https-requests) — earthmover, May 22 '14 at 10:38

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '14 at 13:21

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I think you were close. javax.servlet.forward.request_uri is for normal forwarding, but for 404, you need javax.servlet.error.request_uri.

answered May 22 '14 at 13:21

mindas

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LHA · Answer 2 · 2016-07-11T03:01:10.220

Use request.getAttribute("javax.servlet.error.request_uri") to get URI of requested page that not found (404 error). Check this: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/servletapi/constant-values.html

When error raised (because of some reason such as page not found (404), Internal Server Error (500), ...), the servlet engine will FORWARD the request to corresponding error page (configured in web.xml) using ERROR dispatcher type, NOT FORWARD dispatcher type so that is the reason we must use javax.servlet.error.request_uri, NOT use javax.servlet.forward.request_uri

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '14 at 10:35

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You can use :

String url = request.getRequestURL().toString();

but this doesn't hold Query String. So, to get query string, you may call

request.getQueryString()

answered May 22 '14 at 10:35

earthmover

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As you can see my URL is SEO URL and request.getRequestURL() will return us the JSP mapped to this seo but what i want is SEO url in my JSP. – Vivek May 22 '14 at 10:41
Sorry, but I don't know what is *SEO URL*.. :p – earthmover May 22 '14 at 10:46

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 14:25

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You can do this to get the whole URL including parameters.

    request.getRequestURL()+""+request.getQueryString();

answered Feb 24 '17 at 14:25

Majid Ali Khan

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score -2 · Answer 5 · answered May 22 '14 at 10:33

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use request.getHeader("Referer").

referer gives a url from where you redirected.

answered May 22 '14 at 10:33

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it's giving me null :( – Vivek May 22 '14 at 10:43
yes! page is redirected to 404.jsp when application doesn't find entered URL. – Vivek May 22 '14 at 11:00

how to get URL from address bar in JSP

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