Getting Parts of a URL From the HttpServletRequest Object

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 (last modified Jun 2, 2021)

When I’m not quite sure how to get exactly what I need out of the request URL, I write some stanza that spits out the value of just about every relevant getter method on the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest object. I’ve done this more than once. You know what I’m talking about? It goes something like this:

@RequestMapping(value="/root/**", method = RequestMethod.POST) public void handlePost(Model model,HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); sb.append(" ["); sb.append("\n\t ContextPath: ").append(request.getContextPath()); sb.append("\n\t LocalAddr: ").append(request.getLocalAddr()); sb.append("\n\t LocalName: ").append(request.getLocalName()); sb.append("\n\t LocalPort: ").append(request.getLocalPort()); sb.append("\n\t PathInfo: ").append(request.getPathInfo()); sb.append("\n\t PathTranslated: ").append(request.getPathTranslated()); sb.append("\n\t Protocol: ").append(request.getProtocol()); sb.append("\n\t RemoteAddr: ").append(request.getRemoteAddr()); sb.append("\n\t RemoteHost: ").append(request.getRemoteHost()); sb.append("\n\t RemotePort: ").append(request.getRemotePort()); sb.append("\n\t RequestURI: ").append(request.getRequestURI()); sb.append("\n\t RequestURL: ").append(request.getRequestURL()); sb.append("\n\t Scheme: " ).append(request.getScheme()); sb.append("\n\t ServerName: ").append(request.getServerName()); sb.append("\n\t ServerPort: ").append(request.getServerPort()); sb.append("\n\t ServletPath: ").append(request.getServletPath()); sb.append("\n]"); LOG.trace("-- handlePost() > interesting URL and URI related stuff from request object: " + sb.toString()); }

C’mon. You know you’ve done it more than once too, so just stop it with the smug smile.

I’m ashamed and sick of it, so this time, I’m dropping a breadcrumb for my future self by posting the output, which will give me a clue in some future date when my brain is wore to the core like it is tonight. As God is my witness, I will never, ever write this code stanza again. Here’s the output…

1:07:18.650 [http-bio-8080-exec-3] TRACE c.b.c.controllers.LdpRestController - -- handlePost() > interesting URL and URI related stuff from request object: [ ContextPath: /myapp LocalAddr: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 LocalName: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 LocalPort: 8080 PathInfo: /root/hello/world.jsp PathTranslated: C:\workspace-c\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\myapp\root\hello\world.jsp Protocol: HTTP/1.1 RemoteAddr: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 RemoteHost: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 RemotePort: 49278 RequestURI: /myapp/abc/root/hello/world.jsp RequestURL: http://localhost:8080/myapp/abc/root/hello/world.jsp Scheme: http ServerName: localhost ServerPort: 8080 ServletPath: /abc ]