> YourServlet extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet, and
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet extends javax.servlet.GenericServlet,
> the following is from HttpServlet in jakarta-servletapi-4-src.zip in
> www.Apache.org:
>
> ...
> protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
> throws ServletException, IOException
> {
> String protocol = req.getProtocol();
> String msg = lStrings.getString("http.method_post_not_supported");
> if (protocol.endsWith("1.1")) {
> resp.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED, msg);
> } else {
> resp.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST, msg);
> }
> }
> ...
>
> it doesn't response anything to the client, so you need to override it
> in YourServlet.
You are right, but this is interesting, I have overriden the "service()" method, which
in the HttpServlet dispatches a request to an appropriate method. Was it wrong to do
that? Should I have left "service()" as it was and overriden "doGet()" and "doPost()"
instead?
In my servlet I didn't particulary care which HTTP method was used to call the
servlet, I just wanted the parameters of the request and I wanted to process them. I
realize now that a more strict servlet should pay attention to the HTTP method used to
call it. So, any comment?
Nix.
