How can I get a the host name (with port) that a servlet is at.

Question

I thought ServletContext might provide a method. Does the getAttribute() method of ServletContext provide any help i.e. is there an attribute name (maybe "host", "port") that will be of help.

The reason for this is I want my application to run wherever it is deployed, and at one point I have to allow a user to click a link that points to a location on the file server. Hence I need to reference by the host and port and cannot use an internal reference.

Answer 1

ServletRequest.getServerName(...)
ServletRequest.getServerPort(...)

Answer 2

The ServletRequest object that has been passed to your doGet, or doPost method has getServerName and getServerPort methods that provide this information.

eg

public void doGet(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response) {
    System.out.println("Host = " + request.getServerName());
    System.out.println("Port = " + request.getServerPort());
}

Answer 3

I have found in my old project the string:

request.getHeader("host").contains("xxx")

maybe it is the solution?