Thanks for all the replies on this topic! Servletrunner appears to work as
described for the GET and POST below. In other words, POST processes the
form data and you can query the URI using HttpUtils.parseQueryString(). As
I've read the comments, this kind of makes some sense, although I thought it
might work somewhat differently. I have been able to use the above to get
what I needed. I do believe the docs should explain it a bit better. Also,
there should be some double emphasis on the fact that the Hashtable of
values returned from parseQueryString() is an array of Strings - took me a
bit to get that clear.
Thanks for the help!
Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rickard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 5:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: getParameter for POST
>
> My interpretation was that getParameter() should return you a parameter
> regardless of where it came from. A parameters is a parameter regardless
> of the underlying protocol.
>
> Andrew
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> "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> >
> > Timothy Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > > .The HTTP specification mentions that you can POST to a CGI using a
> URL
> > > with QUERY information attached to the end. This is a valid way to
> > > request a service, and means that in traditional CGI processing you
> > > would have to parse the QUERY string as well as the message CONTENT.
> > >
> > > A Servlet engine may take this approach of still separating the
> > > information.
> > >
> > > (BTW - I'm using Apache JServ, and it see both during a POST)
> > >
> >
> > More specifically for Apache JServ 1.0, the
> ServletRequest.getParameter()
> > family of calls work like this: if the request is a GET, it parses the
> query
> > string; if the request is a POST, it parses the posted content data
> instead.
> > In neither case does it ever combine the two sources. It is not obvious
> from
> > the 2.0 servlet API spec, but it seems to me that this is the correct
> > behavior. (That's the nice thing about open source -- you don't have to
> guess
> > what is really happening. :-)
> >
> > On occasion, I have needed to combine parameters from the input form
> (sent via
> > a POST request) and the query parameters of the request URI. To do
> this, I
> > have ignored the getParameter() call. Instead, I use both
> > HttpUtils.parseQueryString() and HttpUtils.parsePostData(), and then
> combine
> > the two resulting hashtables. That way, I can make my own rules about
> which
> > source overrides the other, without depending on a servlet engine's
> possibly
> > differing interpretation.
> >
> > This kind of thing is pretty easy to package up into reusable tool (in
> my case
> > it's a static method called getParameters() in a utility class, and
> takes the
> > HttpServletRequest as its input), so you only have to write the nitty
> gritty
> > details once. And it will be 100% portable to servlet engines that
> conform to
> > the API.
> >
> > >
> > > Tim Gallagher
> > >
> >
> > Craig McClanahan
> >
> >
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