Re: Trash appears in JSP page upon declaring error page

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:19:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<f9703f35-ff29-4aef-9b38-1a0e496e07bc@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 28, 9:56 am, "phillip.s.pow...@gmail.com"
<phillip.s.pow...@gmail.com> wrote:

<%
     String errorURL = "https://" + request.getServerName() + "/c=

ommon/

error/general_error.jsp";
%>
<%@ page errorPage = "<%= errorURL %>" %>


I believe this is your trouble right here. The <%= scriptlet tag says
to emit the enclosed text to the response 'out' stream. The <%@ JSP
metatag gives a directive to the JSP system, not an output to the
response. You can't mix them.

It's pretty much a mistake to set the error page from within the page
whose errors you're trying to catch. You'd be much better off setting
it from the web.xml.

<html>
<head>
<title>Blah</title>
</title>


Extra '</title>' here - invalid HTML.

</head>
<body>
Foo
</body>
</html>

The following URL, say, we call it "foo.jsp", once displayed, works
fine, except that this is your output:

%>
Foo

And the "%>" is found before the HTML tags are displayed, somehow
embedding this into the header. When I take out the <%@ page %> tag,
the "%>" disappears. I am required to reference the error page URL
within pages such as "foo.jsp", so how do I remove the extraneous
"trash" from the header, i.e. the "%>" from displaying?


Don't use scriptlet in the directive.

--
Lew

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