HttpServletRequest to complete URL

The HttpServletRequest has the following methods:

• getRequestURL() - returns the part of the full URL before query string separator character ?
• getQueryString() - returns the part of the full URL after query string separator character ?

So, to get the full URL, just do:

public static String getFullURL(HttpServletRequest request) {
    StringBuilder requestURL = new StringBuilder(request.getRequestURL().toString());
    String queryString = request.getQueryString();

    if (queryString == null) {
        return requestURL.toString();
    } else {
        return requestURL.append('?').append(queryString).toString();
    }
}

// http://hostname.com/mywebapp/servlet/MyServlet/a/b;c=123?d=789

public static String getUrl(HttpServletRequest req) {
    String reqUrl = req.getRequestURL().toString();
    String queryString = req.getQueryString();   // d=789
    if (queryString != null) {
        reqUrl += "?"+queryString;
    }
    return reqUrl;
}

HttpUtil being deprecated, this is the correct method

StringBuffer url = req.getRequestURL();
String queryString = req.getQueryString();
if (queryString != null) {
    url.append('?');
    url.append(queryString);
}
String requestURL = url.toString();

Combining the results of getRequestURL() and getQueryString() should get you the desired result.

You can write a simple one liner with a ternary and if you make use of the builder pattern of the StringBuffer from .getRequestURL():

private String getUrlWithQueryParms(final HttpServletRequest request) { 
    return request.getQueryString() == null ? request.getRequestURL().toString() :
        request.getRequestURL().append("?").append(request.getQueryString()).toString();
}

But that is just syntactic sugar.

When the request is being forwarded, e.g. from a reverse proxy, the HttpServletRequest.getRequestURL() method will not return the forwarded url but the local url. When the x-forwarded-* Headers are set, this can be easily handled:

public static String getCurrentUrl(HttpServletRequest request) {
    String forwardedHost = request.getHeader("x-forwarded-host");

    if(forwardedHost == null) {
        return request.getRequestURL().toString();
    }

    String scheme = request.getHeader("x-forwarded-proto");
    String prefix = request.getHeader("x-forwarded-prefix");

    return scheme + "://" + forwardedHost + prefix + request.getRequestURI();
}

This lacks the Query part, but that can be appended as supposed in the other answers. I came here, because I specifically needed that forwarding stuff and can hopefully help someone out with that.

I had an usecase to generate cURL command (that I can use in terminal) from httpServletRequest instance. I created one method like this. You can directly copy-paste the output of this method directly in terminal

private StringBuilder generateCURL(final HttpServletRequest httpServletRequest) {
    final StringBuilder curlCommand = new StringBuilder();
    curlCommand.append("curl ");

    // iterating over headers.
    for (Enumeration<?> e = httpServletRequest.getHeaderNames(); e.hasMoreElements();) {
        String headerName = (String) e.nextElement();
        String headerValue = httpServletRequest.getHeader(headerName);
        // skipping cookies, as we're appending cookies separately.
        if (Objects.equals(headerName, "cookie")) {
            continue;
        }
        if (headerName != null && headerValue != null) {
            curlCommand.append(String.format(" -H \"%s:%s\" ", headerName, headerValue));
        }
    }

    // iterating over cookies.
    final Cookie[] cookieArray = httpServletRequest.getCookies();
    final StringBuilder cookies = new StringBuilder();
    for (Cookie cookie : cookieArray) {
        if (cookie.getName() != null && cookie.getValue() != null) {
            cookies.append(cookie.getName());
            cookies.append('=');
            cookies.append(cookie.getValue());
            cookies.append("; ");
        }
    }
    curlCommand.append(" --cookie \"" + cookies.toString() + "\"");

    // appending request url.
    curlCommand.append(" \"" + httpServletRequest.getRequestURL().toString() + "\"");
    return curlCommand;
}