On 9/2/05, Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Cooper wrote: > > >>1. GET: "value1 hello world value2" > >>2. POST (default enctype): "value1 hello world value2" > > > > These are the only two combinations for which the container is required > to > > make parameters available. See SectionSRV.4.1.1 of the Servlet 2.3 spec. > > Thanks for this pointer! I have Servlet 2.4 spec available, but I guess > it did not change much in this respect. > > The important part is contained in SRV.4.1: "Data from the query string > and the post body are aggregated into the request parameter set. [...]" > > However, the container is not restricted to these two combinations. It > could extend the aggregation behaviour to any parameter encoding it > likes. I would go so far and assert that if the spec would someday be > extended to enctype="multipart/form-data", the above aggregation rule > would apply to this combination, too.
Probably, yes. But I'm not holding my breath for support of multipart in the Servlet spec. If they haven't done it by now, for whatever reason, it doesn't seem likely that it will ever happen. ;-( -- Martin Cooper Regards, > > Andreas > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
