> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rosenstrauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:14 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Request attributes?
>
>
> A bit confused.
>
> Looking at org.apache.cocoon.environment.Request (basically
> it's just a ServletRequest object). I see that a Request has
> both parameters and attributes.
>
> I know what request parameters are. These are the form
> values in your HTML form that get submitted to the servlet.
>
> But what are request attributes? I don't know how it works
> elsewhere, but at least with Cocoon these seem to always be empty.
>
> 1) What are they for?
>
> 2) Am I allowed to use these for my own personal use; i.e.,
> as sort of a temporary storage area? (e.g.,
> request.setAttribute(String name, Object o) )
>
Request attributes are indeed used for storage of your own objects,
particularly when forwarding the request for further processing.
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