Hi all,

The Servlet 2.3 spec. is somewhat ambiguous regarding the availability of certain functionalities in a filter.doFilter() method.

The spec. doesn't specifically disallow the use of dispatcher in the doFilter() method. (The context is clearly available and the filter can access RequestDispatcher.)

So the question is precisely this:

Can a filter use the requestDispatcher (obtained either from the context or the request objects) to redirect requests, or not?

Thank you very much in advance.

/J

Yes it can. This may be done to avoid having the filter deal with the request.