Re: [Erlyaws-list] "forward" v.s. redirect

[Steve V. <vi...@ie...>]

On 5/4/08, Bill Robertson <bil...@ya...> wrote:
> I'm extremely interested in YAWS.  I have some experience in servlets,
>  and there is one thing that I am curious about.  In a servlet, it is
>  possible to "forward" a request to another servlet by naming its URL.
>  This does not go back to the browser, but instead just calls the other
>  servlet's process method and when it is done, then you will return.
>
>  Is there an equivalent in YAWS?  I went through the demo documentation
>  on the various redirect functions, and it seemed to me that even
>  local_redirect returns a redirect to the browser.

I believe that returning

{page, "/local/path/to/another/resource"}

where the second argument is the URI path to the local resource you're
redirecting to, will achieve what you seek.

--steve