You should also check for nulls on the request.getParameter. If you are passing
in null values it will give you the error.
"Matthews,Paul" wrote:
> at a guess it is a compiler error cos string should be String...
>
> rgds, Paul
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wap@asl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 25 July 2000 10:05
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Error in catching Param Variables
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > This is the top part of my jsp. It is giving 500 Internal
> > server error. If
> > I remove the last two sentences (variable catchers), the
> > script executes
> > fine. Any idea what might be wrong?
> >
> > Thanx & Regards,
> >
> > Kaushal.
> >
> > ---------
> >
> > <% response.setContentType("text/vnd.wap.wml"); %>
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
> > "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
> >
> > <%@ page import="java.sql.*,java.io.*, java.lang.*,
> > javax.servlet.*,javax.servlet.http.*" %>
> >
> >
> > <%
> > string staffid=request.getParameter("staffid");
> > string password = request.getParameter("password");
> > %>
> >
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