Is it possible to avoid the form action url from getting appended to the url in the address bar.? Or how can i remove finally?

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Is it possible to avoid the form action url from getting appended to the url in the address bar.?
Or how can i remove it in the end?
Ex :
1) Landing page url : abc.net. Its a JSP page. Clicked a button on this page.
2) Lands into another JSP page containing fields along with SUBMIT and CANCEL.
3) On clicking submit in this page,through a form action url specified, a servlet gets called and
url gets changed to abc.net/submit_click_action.
In this servlet, after processing, through the RequestDispatcher, i am making another servlet call,which gets me back to the landing JSP page.
But the url that i see in the address bar is : abc.net/submit_click_action.
Is there a way to avoid adding that 'submit_click_action' being appended to the address bar?
Or how can i remove it in the end?
I read about Pushstates in here: Stackoverflow. I am not sure if i need to use this.
Please help.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 20 '15 at 14:51

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A successful POST request should redirect to another URL. It shouldn't forward to another servlet. This allows the user to safely bookmark or refresh the page: the displayed URL in the address bar will be the page obtained by the redirect, using GET.

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post/Redirect/Get

answered Jun 20 '15 at 14:51

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Thanks! I was searching around for removing the action url part from the url. Didnt realise it had something to do with Post-Redirect-Get. – Kavisha Jun 20 '15 at 15:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '15 at 15:02

A forward and a redirect are different things. And what is displayed in the URL bar of the browser is the last request that the browser has sent to server.

What happened :

you clicked on a submit button and brownser posted the form to an URL
in the servlet processing the request, you forwarded to another page - the browser was not notified of that

=> that's the reason why the URL bar still display the action URL

You should have done a redirect to the URL of the destination page. It is called the Post-Redirect-Get pattern :

the displayed URL is the correct one allowing the user to bookmark the page
if user clicks on the browser back button, he will never receive the ugly message "Do you really want to send again ...?" : because of the redirect, the POST has been replaced in browser history

Thanks! I was searching around for removing the part from the url. Didnt realise — Kavisha, Jun 20 '15 at 15:26

Is it possible to avoid the form action url from getting appended to the url in the address bar.? Or how can i remove finally?

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