Scott, I am not trying to be rude, but you'd be better off diving into a good book on jsp/serlets.
It helps a lot, even if you are used to perl/php/asp. James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet > API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Carter, Scott > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Very begginer question > > > I am guessing that the first method hit is doGet. When is the > doPost method > run? What other special methods are there that execute at pre defined > times? The example I am looking at is below, it is one of the > free examples > that comes with the Tomcat web server. > > Thanks - Scott > > > > import java.io.*; > import javax.servlet.*; > import javax.servlet.http.*; > > public class RequestInfo extends HttpServlet { > > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > response) > throws IOException, ServletException > { > response.setContentType("text/html"); > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); > out.println("<html>"); > out.println("<body>"); > out.println("<head>"); > out.println("<title>Request Information Example</title>"); > out.println("</head>"); > out.println("<body>"); > out.println("<h3>Request Information Example</h3>"); > out.println("Method: " + request.getMethod()); > out.println("Request URI: " + request.getRequestURI()); > out.println("Protocol: " + request.getProtocol()); > out.println("PathInfo: " + request.getPathInfo()); > out.println("Remote Address: " + request.getRemoteAddr()); > out.println("</body>"); > out.println("</html>"); > } > > /** > * We are going to perform the same operations for POST requests > * as for GET methods, so this method just sends the request to > * the doGet method. > */ > > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > response) > throws IOException, ServletException > { > doGet(request, response); > } > } > > __________________________________________________________________ > _________ > 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
