Bookmarking Url

Question

Hi there,
          I have an application with a front-servlet that handles all the requests
          from the browser.
          Sometimes the request comes as submit-button requests and sometimes the
          servlet
          is activated from a href.
          When the submit button is used a servlet is activated with a post
          method,which prevents
          user from bookmarking Url. This is all fine.
          How can I do the same when the user clicks on a href ?
          I want the servlet to get activated without exposing the command and
          parameters in the Url.
          Is that possible ?
          Should I use JavaScript ?
          ..thanks in advance
          Per Lovdinger
          

Answer 1

There are two things that web apps perform:
          - do
          - show
          You should typically not have "do" items bookmarkable. That means that a
          POST from a form should not be the resultant page's URL.
          Consider:
          page1 -> post -> page2
          This is usually accomplished by page2 being returned by the Servlet that
          handles the POST. If instead, the Servlet returns a Javascript redirect (or
          does a sendRedirect) to the page2 URL, then the user can save the bookmark.
          Peace,
          Cameron Purdy
          Tangosol, Inc.
          http://www.tangosol.com
          Tangosol Server: Enabling enterprise application customization
          "Per Lovdinger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          > Hi there,
          >
          > I have an application with a front-servlet that handles all the requests
          > from the browser.
          >
          > Sometimes the request comes as submit-button requests and sometimes the
          > servlet
          > is activated from a href.
          >
          > When the submit button is used a servlet is activated with a post
          > method,which prevents
          > user from bookmarking Url. This is all fine.
          >
          > How can I do the same when the user clicks on a href ?
          > I want the servlet to get activated without exposing the command and
          > parameters in the Url.
          > Is that possible ?
          >
          > Should I use JavaScript ?
          >
          > ..thanks in advance
          > Per Lovdinger
          >
          >
          >