respone.sendRedirect() works fine in firefox but not in IE6

Question

I have a servlet that redirects to a jsp page using response.sendRedirect(), It works fine in firefox, but in IE6 it does not redirect to this page. Can anyone help me with this please?

Answer 1

This might help you: http://www.coderanch.com/t/443561/Servlets/java/sendRedirect-working.

public void editQuery() throws IOException {  
  String url = request.getContextPath() + "/search.jsp";  
  url = response.encodeRedirectURL(url);  
  //url = response.encodeURL(url);  
  response.setHeader("Pragma", "No-cache");  
  response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");  
  response.setHeader("Expires", "1");  
  response.sendRedirect(url);
}  

Please note that IE6 is no longer maintained. Microsoft publishes no security fixes which makes this a very unsafe browser.