can we use RequestDispatcher to hit URL out of the current server..

some thing like this

RequestDispatcher dis_ = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("http://www.google.com/search?q=JSP").

Thanks
-Venu

If you're using the ServletContext to retrieve a request dispatcher, you can only get them for named servlets or paths relative to the context root.

There's nothing in the RequestDispatcher interface itself (AFAIK) that would stop it from being used from a remote site, but there's no way that I'm aware of to get one.

If you were looking to perform a forward, though, you could use response.sendRedirect( ).