How to reference clients last page hit

Question

I am wondering if in the session or request object that there is a way to indentify the clients last page that they were accessing.
thanks in advance

Answer 1

I have a similar problem and I solved it using
request.getHeader("referer")
as you say here and I use it and it is ok, but now I have another problem.
I have a form where the user can enter some search criteria. This form returns a list of results.
The list of results that the servlet sends back to the client has many results, so I use paging, this is, I add two links "next" and "previous" where I send all the search parameters and the offset to know how many results has the user seen.
As I want to go back to the "process" that called the form I have to saved as a request attribute the original referrer. So I also included in the parameters one called
referrer=<%=request.getAttribute("referrer")%>
but when I debbug the code I see that this parameter is lost and the value of the parameter is divided. I give you an example
referrer=http://sys40:8080/WM/servletAdm?idMenu=HIST
and the parameter that has the servlet is
http://sys40:8080/WM/servletAdm?idMenu
instead of
referrer
Am I doing something wrong?
I solved this problem doing the following
private String armarReferrer(HttpServletRequest request) {
Enumeration paramNames = request.getParameterNames();
while(paramNames.hasMoreElements()) {
String paramName = (String)paramNames.nextElement();
if(paramName.startsWith("http://"))
return paramName + "=" + request.getParameter(paramName);
return "";
But I don't think this is the best way to do this
Any idea? Thanks