OK but the question is SHOULD the servlet engine include URL parameters in a
POST request in the getParameter method or SHOULD the application be forced to
use getQueryString()?
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)
>
> Tim Gallagher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 9:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: getParameter for POST
>
> 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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