how to get referrer from ContainerRequestContext object

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How to get referrer URL from ContainerRequestContext object.

Please find the code snippet below,

public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext) {
   ApplicationUser user = (ApplicationUser) CacheManagerBase.getInstance().getApplicationUserCache().getCurrentUser();
   requestContext.setSecurityContext(new UserContext(user));
}

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '16 at 16:57

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There's a couple of different options, but the simplest is

String referrer = requestContext.getHeaderString("referer");

That might return null if the header isn't set.

answered Jan 27 '16 at 16:57

sisyphus

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Thanks for the reply. In my case i got to make it more secured and i got to take the actual referrer using the REST jersey framework and inturn J2EE, instead of me sending the referrer and fetching it. – Balaji Sudharsanam Jan 28 '16 at 04:08

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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Referer will not be available in all the cases, mentioned in the POST below,

In what cases will HTTP_REFERER be empty

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Feb 02 '16 at 10:36

Balaji Sudharsanam

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how to get referrer from ContainerRequestContext object

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