Redirect if invalid URL entry

From:
"teser3@hotmail.com" <teser3@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
17 May 2007 19:19:16 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179454756.417424.164510@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On my Tomcat 4.1.27 container, the below Pagination works great using
a Servlet where page number is entered in the url and has to be a
digit:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/theWeb/mypackage/page/1
Every URL entry after [b]page/[/b] has to be a number only.

But sometimes someone might manually input a non digit entry (
http://127.0.0.1:8080/theWeb/mypackage/page/2d ) in the URL and it
will ge me error message:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "2d"

Here is the Servlet and I cant seem to create a redirect message if
someone enters a non digit number:

package mypackage;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;

public class TheServlet extends HttpServlet{

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws IOException, ServletException {
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
out.write("<hr>");
String pg = req.getPathInfo();
out.write("page # " + pg + "<br />");
HttpSession sess = req.getSession();
ArrayList items = null;
 int j = 0;
int recordTotal = 0;

items = new ArrayList();
sess.setAttribute("items", items);

try
{
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver");
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://
localhost/myf?user=deve&password=mypwd");
Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet results = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * from user");

while(results.next())
{
   recordTotal++;
   String myd = results.getString("lastname");
    items.add(myd);

}
}

catch(Exception e) {
       System.err.println(e);

}

        int perPage = 3;
        int displayPages = (recordTotal + perPage - 1)/perPage;

pg = pg.substring(1);

j = Integer.parseInt(pg) * perPage - perPage;

Object temp = sess.getAttribute("items");
if(temp instanceof ArrayList)
{
items = (ArrayList) temp;

}

else
{
out.write("Type Cast error. Send status code 500.");

}

//items = (ArrayList) sess.getAttribute("items");

for (int i = 0; i < perPage && i + j < recordTotal; i++) {
if (items != null) out.write("<br>" + items.get(i + j) + "\n");

}
}
}

Servlet mapping in web.xml

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TheServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/mypackage/page/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Any suggestions or way for me to redirect a non digit url entry?

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