You are saying you are doing a POST and passing parameters in the URL?
e.g. POST /servlet/projects?name=joe. If thats the case then your
Servlet Engine may not see that parameter. The engine only needs to see
the URL parameters in a GET and Form values in a POST...
Formanek Gary L wrote:
>
> I'm using servletrunner, so it should be OK. Basically I'm doing what I
> showed below with a post from an html web page with the action equal to
> below. Again, I don't get a value for name. It finds nothing and returns
> null. All of the other form name/value pairs work fine, but the parameters
> in the URL do not come thru.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gabriel Wong [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 9:29 AM
> > To: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet
> > API Technology.; Formanek Gary L
> > Subject: Re: getParameter for POST
> >
> >
> > getParameter should work for both GET and POST. So there could be a
> > problem with your Servlet Engine?
> >
> > Formanek Gary L wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was always under the impression you could use something such as
> > > req.getParameter("name") to get the parameter values off the URL such as
> > > http://127.0.0.1/servlet/projects?name=joe. What I have found is that it
> > is
> > > null. Can't you do this with a post from a web page? It works just fine
> > for
> > > the form values on a web page. I know I can use parseQueryString(), but
> > this
> > > seems messy and I was hoping I could use the first one.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >
> > >
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