This is a pretty crazy set of requirements you're working with here -- I'll trust there's a good reason for it and just stick to the question. ;)
At 11:34 AM 2/16/2004, you wrote:
Assuming I have a URL of http://www.mysite.com/myservlet.jsp?myvar=1&yourvar=2
Your URL is: "http://www.mysite.com/myservlet.jsp"; Your Query String is: "myvar=1&yourvar=2"
When the browser sends this request to tomcat (which is also acting as a webserver - no apache is running), does it put everything after the ? into the QUERY_STRING HTTP variable, or does it include it in the URL request?
It parses the GET request into the two components listed above.
I have a filter in place that will replace /variable/ with &variable= to allow for proper processing of variables. Here is what I observe :
If I have a URL of : mysite.com/myservlet.jsp/myvar/1/yourvar/2
then it will properly translate this into : mysite.com/myservlet.jsp?myvar=1&yourvar=2
and everything works.
Looks good.
However, we have a new requirement that we want to keep ?myvar=1 as part of the original URL, so the incoming request would look like this : mysite.com/myservlet.jsp?myvar=1/yourvar/2
Your URL is: "http://www.mysite.com/myservlet.jsp"; Your Query String is: "myvar=1/yourvar/2"
AND
request.getParameter("myvar") == "1/yourvar/2"
and, naturally, we want it translated into mysite.com/myservlet.jsp?myvar=1&yourvar=2
but this does NOT happen. Instead, it seems like the filter is doing nothing. The only explanation I can think of is that, now that the ? is in the original request URL, the browser is taking everthing after it, stripping it out of the request URL, and putting it into the QUERY_STRING variable - so that the filter doesn't see it. The filter would only see mysite.com/myservlet.jsp and would not perform any translation.
This is exactly what's happening. If you want to inspect the entire GET request, you need to reconstruct the entire GET request by doing something like this (pseudo code):
StringBuffer sb = request.getRequestURL();
sb.append("/");
parse request.getQueryString() into name=value pairs and name/value pairs
for each pair
if pair is name=value, convert each name=value pair into a name/value pair
sb.append(name/value pair)
Or whatever, depending on what you need.
Hope that clears up any confusion. Again, I hope -- for your own sake -- you have a *really* good reason for complicating this relatively simple process. ;)
justin
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