getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Matt Becker
Hi, I have a servlet which dispatches out various jsp's. Some of the jsp's resulting html contain links back to the servlet to fire off another page like this: A HREF="mainservlet?cmd=loadpage=home"HOME/A When I do a request.getParameter("cmd") the string I get is "cmd" which is right. When I do

RE: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Stefan Langer
No you are not doing anything wrong. But I think you are using a name that is allready reserved for a parameter. (Please correct me if I'm wrong) Try changing page to page1 or something different and see the result. Stefan

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Ramkumar Manoharan
It looks like the "page" could be a key-word and is pulling "mainservlet?cmd=load",try changing page to something like "pg" and see if u get the same error. Ram From: Matt Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: get

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Matt Becker
rote: It looks like the "page" could be a key-word and is pulling "mainservlet?cmd=load",try changing page to something like "pg" and see if u get the same error. Ram From: Matt Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getPa

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Elijah Roberts
On Tuesday January 16, 2001 Matt Becker wrote: Hi, Ram! I tried changing the name "page" to "pg" but that didn't change that getParameter() returns other part of the text that's not part of the "pg" variable. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong with the URL in how the parameters

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Ramkumar Manoharan
PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: getParameter() help Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:07:56 -0800 Hi, Ram! I tried changing the name "page" to "pg" but that didn't change that getParameter() returns other part of the text that's not part of

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Matt Becker
ng it right.Try restarting the server and close all browser windows that are open(just to make sure that the browser is not dishing out the cached page).Also please post your code so that we can take a look at it. hope this solves your problem Ram From: Matt Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Ramkumar Manoharan
ubject: Re: getParameter() help Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:45:22 -0800 Here's a boiled down version of my code. public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, java.io.IOException { String cmd = request.getParameter("cmd"

RE: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread CPC Livelink Admin
I modded your code and made it a JSP so it was easy for me. The following URLs work as expected. You will need to change /livelink/ms to whatever webapp you use, I just put it in there cuz it was easy http://localhost:8080/livelink/ms/foo.jsp http://localhost:8080/livelink/ms/foo.jsp?cmd=load

RE: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Stefan Langer
Are you using Tomcat 3.2.1 as a standalone browser or in combination with apache or similar browser?? I tried to check if home is a reservered word but it works fine with my setup (Tomcat standalone, win2k, IE5.5) Even page works without problem. My suggestion is as RAmkumar said that

Re: getParameter() help

2001-01-16 Thread Matt Becker
you try what Elijah suggested.I think elijah is right in pointing out about the "home" word,probably the browser/server is substituting home with the value u r getting. Ram From: Matt Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: getParameter()