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Request not being redirected to where I expect it to go

843841Feb 28 2006 — edited Feb 28 2006
I start off on the page
http://localhost/Chapter4/login.html
I enter an invalid login which should see the RequestDispatcher redirect me back to the Login.html page I started at.
but it instead goes to
http://localhost/Chapter4/servlet/LoginServlet ?
Why is this?

Here are the files I have ... AccountServlet is mot included
public class LoginServlet extends HttpServlet
{
	Hashtable users = new Hashtable();

	//This method will be called when someone types the URL for this servlet in the browser
	public void doGet( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
		throws ServletException, IOException
	{
		doPost( req, res );
	}

	//This method retrieves the ID/Pwd, verifies them. If valid it forwards the request to the AccountServlet,
	//else to the Login page.
	public void doPost( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res )
		throws ServletException, IOException
	{
		String id = req.getParameter("id");
		String pwd = req.getParameter("pwd");

		if( id != null && pwd != null && pwd.equals( users.get(id)) )
		{
			//Set the user id in the Request.
			req.setAttribute("id", id);
			ServletContext context = getServletContext();
			RequestDispatcher rd = context.getRequestDispatcher("/servlet/AccountServlet");
			rd.forward( req, res );
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println("Invalid ligin, going back to the Login page");
			RequestDispatcher rd = req.getRequestDispatcher("../login.html");
			rd.forward(req, res );
		}
	}

	public void init()
	{
		System.out.println( "\nInitializing Login, creating some user names\n\n" );
		users.put("ann", "aaa" );
	}
}

Web.xml
<web-app>

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>LoginServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>
		<servlet>
		<servlet-name>AccountServlet</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>AccountServlet</servlet-class>
	</servlet>
		<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/servlet/LoginServlet</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>AccountServlet</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/servlet/AccountServlet</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	
</web-app>


Login.html
<html>
	<head>
	<title>SCWCD Example</title>
	</head>
	<body><h3>Enter your ID and Password: </h3><p>
	<form action="servlet/LoginServlet" method="POST">
User ID: <input type="text" name="id"><br></br></input>	
Password: <input type="password" name="pwd"><br></br></input>
<input type="submit" value="Show statement"></input>	
	</form></p>
	</body>
</html>
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