capturing http post response parameters.

[Ketan Kaushikbhai Patel <kk...@drexel.edu>]

I have a java application that makes an http post request to an 
external web application using the HttpClient. The external web 
application returns back the result as an XML document in the main 
body. In addition to this, the external web application also returns 
some information via URL query string. How can I capture the query 
string values? 
Will httpPostMethod.getParameters() return the query string parameters.


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Re: capturing http post response parameters.

[Michael Becke <be...@u.washington.edu>]

Hello,

The response to a HTTP post contains a status line, headers, and 
usually a body.

The status line basically just contains a code indicating the status of 
the request. This can be retrieved via getStatusCode().

The headers contain a variety of meta-information about the request.  
For example whether or not the connection should be closed, the content 
type and length of the body.  The headers can be accessed using 
getResponseHeaders().

The final part is the body, which it seems you have already discovered.

I am unsure of what the returned query string is that you mention. My 
only guess is that the post is returning a redirect (one of the 3XX 
status codes).  Redirects are generally accompanied by a Location 
header that contains the URI to redirect to.  Please take a look at the 
redirects documentation 
<http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/redirects.html> for some 
more detail.

Mike

On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Ketan Kaushikbhai Patel 
wrote:

> I have a java application that makes an http post request to an
> external web application using the HttpClient. The external web
> application returns back the result as an XML document in the main
> body. In addition to this, the external web application also returns
> some information via URL query string. How can I capture the query
> string values?
> Will httpPostMethod.getParameters() return the query string parameters.
>
>
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