Confluence Docs 3.0 : How do I get hold of the HttpServletRequest? This page last changed on Jan 24, 2006 by jnolen. ### Cannot resolve external resource into attachment. How do I get hold of the HttpServletRequest?
    HttpServletRequest request = ServletActionContext.getRequest();
    if (request != null)
    {
         // do something here
    }
You should always assume that ServletActionContext.getRequest() will return null. ServletActionContext is only populated if the request comes in through WebWork. There are a number of circumstances in which it will not be populated, either because a web request has come in through some other path, or because there was no web request in the first place: AJAX requests that come in via the DWR servlet SOAP/XML-RPC requests Scheduled tasks, including the sending of email notifications Treat `ServletActionContext` as a bonus. If it's populated you can do neat things with it, but don't rely on it.

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