/io/IOException.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.io">IOException</a></pre>
<div class="block">Forwards a request from a servlet to another resource (servlet, JSP file, or HTML file) on the server. This method
 allows one servlet to do preliminary processing of a request and another resource to generate the response.

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 For a <code>RequestDispatcher</code> obtained via <code>getRequestDispatcher()</code>, the
 <code>ServletRequest</code> object has its path elements and parameters