Duane,
The problem you're referring to doesn't happen to me, even though I use this
kind of programming approach all the time (in Struts). Do you have a simple
test case that you can send to help us isolate this?
Craig McClanahan
Duane Morse wrote:
> The following partial stack trace illustrates a problem/bug in Tomcat 3.2
> (final release) when a servlet processes
> a POST request and then forwards processing to a JSP. In "pre-processing",
> Tomcat is trying to read the form
> data, but since it's already been read, it generates a "short read" error.
> Since the servlet API
> specifically says that the forward command allows one servlet to do some
> processing of a message before
> passing on the work to another servlet, this behavior is either a bug in the
> Tomcat 3.2 implementation (trying
> to read the POST data without knowing whether the subsequent servlet wants
> the data) or it's a serious shortcoming
> of the servlet API (you can't ever forward a POST request).
>
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Short Read at
> javax.servlet.http.HttpUtils.parsePostData(HttpUtils.java:238) at
> org.apache.tomcat.util.RequestUtil.readFormData(RequestUtil.java:101) at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.RequestImpl.handleParameters(RequestImpl.java:691) at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.RequestImpl.getParameterValues(RequestImpl.java:259)
> at org.apache.tomcat.core.RequestImpl.getParameter(RequestImpl.java:250) at
> org.apache.tomcat.facade.HttpServletRequestFacade.getParameter(HttpServletRe
> questFacade.java:222) at
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.preCompile(JspServlet.java:326) at
> org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:370) at
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404) at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286) at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at
> org.apache.tomcat.facade.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl
> .java:194)
>
> Duane Morse, Eldorado Computing Inc., Phoenix Arizona
