I don't know this is the cause or not but the varaible name is typed wrong "pponum" check it .
Vijay Mark Galbreath wrote: > Is your servlet mapping in your web-xml file "servlet" or "/servlet"? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kwan, > William > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: passing parameters from jsp to servlet > > Hi, > > I'm going from one jsp page to another jsp page and then the servlet. > I"m having a bit of a problem passing a parameter from a jsp page to a > servlet. I print out the variable in the jsp page and I get a value but > when I print it from a servlet, I get NULL. > > Any ideas?? > > Here is what I'm using: > > jsp page: > <form action='servlet/processServlet' method='POST'> > ... > request.setAttribute("txtbox",ponumber); > > </form> > > in servlet > > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest, request, HttpServletResponse > response) throws IOException, ServletException > { > response.setContentType("text/html"); > PrintWriter out=response.getWriter(); > > String ponum = (String) request.getAttribute("txtbox"); > out.println("ponum=" + pponum); > > } > > thanks, > Will > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
