Re: Forwarding POST/GET data to a servlet

[Hans Bergsten]

Peter Schuller wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to "forward" the POST/GET data of a request, from a JSP to a
> servlet? Eg, instead of manually extracting the parameters the servlet wants
> and using them in the <jsp:include> tag, just have the servlet get access to
> the original request.
>
> This would make some things much easier. Both in terms of automating page
> generation and handling forms.

That's exactly what <jsp:forward> and <jsp:include> do; they invoke the
specified page with the same request object, so the new page (or servlet)
has access to all the original parameters.

Hans
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