help writing out a HeaderElement properly

[computer junkie <an...@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I read in something that came from a response. I got the content-type by using ..getResponseHeader("content-type");
I
want to keep the information about the content type but access very
often  just the type itself. That's why I thought it best to keep it as
a HeaderElement: That takes care of properly storing any parameters
(such as charset=...). 

so far so good.

Now I want to use this as the content-type header in another message. 
if i do
  addRequestHeader("content-type", myHeaderElement.toString());
that gives me in the actual message (using firebug to inspect): 
   Content-Type: name=application/x-www-form-urlencoded, value=null 

oops! 

How do I get it in a header properly?
How do I get it printing out as a String properly (let's say even if not for the Header itself) ? 

I looked for something like header.addHeaderElement(myHeaderElement) and then adding that header. No such luck.
I also looked for something like HeaderElement.write(myHeaderElement) or something like that to mirror HeaderElement.parse ...
Still nothing.

Help appreciated !
Thanks!
Rania
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Re: help writing out a HeaderElement properly

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:33 +0000, computer junkie wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I read in something that came from a response. I got the content-type by using ..getResponseHeader("content-type");
> I
> want to keep the information about the content type but access very
> often  just the type itself. That's why I thought it best to keep it as
> a HeaderElement: That takes care of properly storing any parameters
> (such as charset=...). 
> 
> so far so good.
> 
> Now I want to use this as the content-type header in another message. 
> if i do
>   addRequestHeader("content-type", myHeaderElement.toString());
> that gives me in the actual message (using firebug to inspect): 
>    Content-Type: name=application/x-www-form-urlencoded, value=null 
> 
> oops! 
> 
> How do I get it in a header properly?
> How do I get it printing out as a String properly (let's say even if not for the Header itself) ? 
> 
> I looked for something like header.addHeaderElement(myHeaderElement) and then adding that header. No such luck.
> I also looked for something like HeaderElement.write(myHeaderElement) or something like that to mirror HeaderElement.parse ...
> Still nothing.
> 

StringBuffer is your friend. Use ParameterFormatter from
org.apache.commons.httpclient.util
 to format individual name/value pairs and append them to the buffer.

HttpClient 4.0 has a much better message parsing / formatting API. So,
if you do not mind using ALPHA code, consider using 4.0 API instead.   

Oleg



> Help appreciated !
> Thanks!
> Rania
> _________________________________________________________________
> News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now!
> http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx


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