Please Help. bug with getParameter() and getQueryString()

[Ishmael Riles <is...@zendostudios.com>]

Hello,

I am new to Tomcat so I may be making a newbie mistake. I have written a
bunch of servlets that work great but when I make calls to
HttpServletRequest.getParameter() from with in the doGet method of a basic
Hello World type servlet I get a null object. I have also tried
HttpServletRequest.getParmaterNames() wich returns an empty Enumeration.
getQueryString() returns an empty string but getRequestURI() returns the
whole http request including the parameters.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this bug? Could I have made
an error configuring tomcat. I am using apache on Linux (mandrake distro)
and I don't see the bug when I go through the built in web server.

Here's the version info:
Apache version 1.3.9
jdk 1.2.2
tomcat 3.1

I'd be happy to send conf files if they will help.

Thanks in advance,

Ishmael.

Re: Please Help. bug with getParameter() and getQueryString()

[Ishmael Riles <is...@zendostudios.com>]

From: David R. Smith <cl...@home.com>


> It's not a bug just because your code doesn't work. Give some example code
> so we can see what you're doing.
Yeah. I am pretty sure it's not a bug in tomcat It probably has to do with
my configuration.

But below is my code. My configuration files are probably more relevant to
the problem at hand but I am not sure wich ones I should send.

********* CODE STARTS HERE
**************************************************

import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.util.*;

/**
 *
 *
 * @author Ishmael Riles <is...@zendostudios.com>
 *
 */

public class HelloWorld extends HttpServlet {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
response)
       throws IOException
   {
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        response.setContentType("text/plain");

        // this returns ""
       out.println ("getQueryString() " + request.getQueryString());

       // this returns the correct stuff.
       // this returns "http://<server-name>/servlet/HelloWorld?param1=stuff
       out.println ("getRequestURI() "+request.getRequestURI());

        out.println("Hello World Servlet");
        out.println();

        // request.getParameter( "param1") returns null
        out.println ( "recordingId = "+request.getParameter ( "param1" ));

        // this returns an empty Enumeration.
        Enumeration enum = request.getParameterNames ();

        while ( enum.hasMoreElements() ) {
                out.println ("parameter names");
                out.println ( enum.nextElement().toString() );
         }
        out.close();
    }
}




> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ishmael Riles" <is...@zendostudios.com>
> To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 4:58 PM
> Subject: Please Help. bug with getParameter() and getQueryString()
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to Tomcat so I may be making a newbie mistake. I have written a
> > bunch of servlets that work great but when I make calls to
> > HttpServletRequest.getParameter() from with in the doGet method of a
basic
> > Hello World type servlet I get a null object. I have also tried
> > HttpServletRequest.getParmaterNames() wich returns an empty Enumeration.
> > getQueryString() returns an empty string but getRequestURI() returns the
> > whole http request including the parameters.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this bug? Could I have
> made
> > an error configuring tomcat. I am using apache on Linux (mandrake
distro)
> > and I don't see the bug when I go through the built in web server.
> >
> > Here's the version info:
> > Apache version 1.3.9
> > jdk 1.2.2
> > tomcat 3.1
> >
> > I'd be happy to send conf files if they will help.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ishmael.
> >
> >
>
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[Ishmael Riles <is...@zendostudios.com>]

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