trying to get a filter to redirect to the refering page if it doesn't pass certain criteria. if it needs to return to the referer, I add values to the request.attributes object.

if I use request.getDispatcher(path).transer(request,response) the URL displayed is the 2nd page (which means other filters needed won't properly execute and a second submit from there leaves it thinking the refering page was 'itself'.

if I use response.redirect(referingPage) it's fine, but now the values I need that were passed in the attributes object are lost.

nutshelling:
I need it to return to the original page and still show the correct (original) URI and still be able to access parameters set from the filter.

suggestions?