URL from Servlet

[mitalub]

From a jsp, how can I access the URL used to request the page?

For example, assume the user would browse to "http://localhost:8080/servletName/app/viewName"
This is mapped to WEB-INF/jsp/viewNameView.jsp

From within the jsp, I need to get "viewName" (or "/servletName/app/viewName" would do).

Unfortunately ${pageContext.request.requestURL} returns the path to the jsp: "http://localhost:8080/servletName/WEB-INF/jsp/viewNameView.jsp" which is not what I want. I've tried a bunch of other implicint variables to no avail as well.

I could set a model parameter from my Java controller code… something like map.put("url", request.getPathInfo()) but this seems ugly. Request.pathInfo doesn't return anything in the jsp.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[jfredrickson]

I don't know whether or not the view name is available to the JSP as an implicit variable anywhere, but your alternate solution (having the controller add the URL/path to the model) seems sensible enough from a MVC perspective. The URL/path information is simply another object to be passed to the view for rendering.

Sorry that I wasn't able to exactly answer your question, but my two cents is that it's OK to use the model for this.