When you go to the site using a normal anchor tag, you see the list of
remembered links. If you fill in the form and press the submit button
(which is method=post), you submit that information. Like I said, it's just
an example. As for the file://name things, that's Outlook express trying to
help It see's the double slash and assumes it's a file url. Those are just
single line comments.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: sidaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Stil having Problem with POST FORM
> Hi Chris ,
> But you did not show us the body of the servlet "LiveLinks" which is i
> suppose the action associeted to
> the Post FORM , Since our major problem reside in that action (i mean
> Servlet mentionned as action=....)
>
> And in your example there are some lines like file://name
> what is their purpose exactly . Are they mendatory for "Livelinks" to work
?
>
> Many thanks .
>
> Sidaty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De : Chris Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Envoy� : vendredi 17 septembre 1999 18:27
> Objet : Re: Stil having Problem with POST FORM
>
>
> > Below is a simple HTML Link manager that I wrote when I was learning
> > servlets. If a GET request comes in it displays the links it has
> collected.
> > If a POST request comes in, it expects to receive the information to add
> > another link to it's list of remembered links. Pretty simplistic, but
> > different behavior between the get and post sides. It's not the most
> > efficient beast, but it's a pretty good example program.
> > (*Chris*)
> >
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: ARCHAIMBAULT SYLVAIN SOPRA
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: Stil having Problem with POST FORM
> >
> >
> > > For my part, I make the same thing as Steven, because I really
> > > don't see why you will want different behaviour with GET and POST
> > > method. Can you give us an example of a situation in which you
> > > want to do that.
> > >
> > > sly
> > >
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:43:28 -0500
> > > Subject: Re: Still having Problem with POST FORM
> > >
> > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> > >
> > > [ ... ]
> > > > Frankly, I override the service() method. Various people
> > > have
> > > > said "this is bad" but I've never actually heard a coherent,
> > > cogent
> > > > explanation of why it's bad. 99% of the time you don't really
> > > care
> > > > whether they use GET or POST. The main reason not to use GET is
> > > for
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > Or perhaps you just didn't appreciate those explanations. What
> > > the
> > > default service() does is very nice, farming requests out to
> > > appropriate doXXX() methods. So when you want to do different
> > > things
> > > with GET and POST (or whatever) HTTP methods, it's very nice. And
> > > still it's very easy to handle the case when they do the same
> > > thing.
> > >
> > > Perhaps you've only worked with servlets that do the same thing
> > > with
> > > GET and POST. But that doesn't mean that 99% of applications work
> > > that way. And if you ever have to change, it'll be a lot easier
> > > if
> > > you had just left service() alone in the first place.
> > >
> > > In addition, not having heard a compelling argument for not
> > > overriding
> > > service() is *not* a compelling argument *for* overriding
> > > service().
> > >
> > > Milt Epstein
> > > Research Programmer
> > > Software/Systems Development Group
> > > Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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