diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
index ae7a1082e..d079b0fb4 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ public class EntityController extends VitroHttpServlet {
                 // insert test for whether a css files of the same name exists, and populate the customCss string for use when construction the header
             }
             String netid = iwDao.getNetId(entity.getURI());
+            
             vreq.setAttribute("netid", netid);
             vreq.setAttribute("vclassName", vclassName);
             vreq.setAttribute("entity",entity);
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ public class EntityController extends VitroHttpServlet {
             vreq.setAttribute("scripts", "/templates/entity/entity_inject_head.jsp");
 
             RequestDispatcher rd = vreq.getRequestDispatcher( view );
-            rd.forward(req,res);
+            rd.forward(vreq,res);
         } catch (Throwable e) {
             log.error(e);
             req.setAttribute("javax.servlet.jsp.jspException",e);
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/EntityWebUtils.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/EntityWebUtils.java
index 15bc94a12..21a6d1302 100755
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/EntityWebUtils.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/EntityWebUtils.java
@@ -67,13 +67,16 @@ public class EntityWebUtils {
 
         // see if we can get the URI from a namespace prefix and a local name
 		String requestURI = vreq.getRequestURI();
+		
 		String[] requestParts = requestURI.split("/individual/");
 		String[] URIParts = requestParts[1].split("/");
+		
 		String namespace = "";
 		NamespaceMapper namespaceMapper = NamespaceMapperFactory.getNamespaceMapper(vreq.getSession().getServletContext());
 		String t;
 		namespace = ( (t = namespaceMapper.getNamespaceForPrefix(URIParts[0])) != null) ? t : "";
 		String localName = URIParts[1];
+		
 		return vreq.getWebappDaoFactory().getIndividualDao().getIndividualByURI(namespace+localName);
 
 //        entityIdStr = vreq.getParameter("adw");