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RequestDispatcher - Impossible to forward to parent directory?

843841Jan 21 2004 — edited Jan 23 2004

I am using RequestDispatcher.forward() within a ServletFilter to redirect certain URLs.

This is excellent as long as the page I am forwarding to is in the same or a child directory, i.e. it can be specificed by /XXX.jsp or /dirName/XXX.jsp

However, I have a need to forward to ../XXX.jsp or even ../dirName/XXX.jsp. This does not appear to be possible, is it? I want to stay away from doing request.sendRedirect(), but is that my only solution?

Thanks so much,
Alan

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