net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.net

Class HttpServletSupport

java.lang.Object

net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.net.HttpServletSupport

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public final class HttpServletSupport
extends Object

Utilities for working with HTTP Servlet requests and responses.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
private	HttpServletSupport() Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	addNoCacheHeaders(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Adds Cache-Control and Pragma headers meant to disable caching.
static URI	getFullRequestURI(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Gets the URL that was requested to generate this request.
static String	getRequestPathWithoutContext(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Gets the request URI as returned by HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() but without the servlet context path.
static void	setContentType(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, String contentType) Sets the MIME content type of the response.
static void	setUTF8Encoding(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response) Sets the character encoding of the transport to UTF-8.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HttpServletSupport

private HttpServletSupport()

Constructor.

Method Detail

addNoCacheHeaders

public static void addNoCacheHeaders(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Adds Cache-Control and Pragma headers meant to disable caching.

Parameters:

response - transport to add headers to

setUTF8Encoding

public static void setUTF8Encoding(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response)

Sets the character encoding of the transport to UTF-8.

Parameters:

response - transport to set character encoding type

setContentType

public static void setContentType(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
                                  String contentType)

Sets the MIME content type of the response.

Parameters:

response - the transport to set content type on

contentType - the content type to set

getRequestPathWithoutContext

public static String getRequestPathWithoutContext(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Gets the request URI as returned by HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() but without the servlet context path.

Parameters:

request - request to get the URI from

Returns:

constructed URI

getFullRequestURI

public static URI getFullRequestURI(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Gets the URL that was requested to generate this request. This includes the scheme, host, port, path, and query string.

Parameters:

request - current request

Returns:

URL that was requested to generate this request