At 09.02 17/03/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A really easy question for you? I can't seem to get values out of a html
>form using my servlet. This is for example Name and password values.
>The following code:
>
>In the doGet method:
>out.print("<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Login</TITLE>");
> out.print("</HEAD><BODY><FORM
>METHOD=\"POST\">");
add in FORM ACTION="/servlet/yourServlet"
> out.print("<INPUT TYPE=\"TEXT\"
>NAME=\"login\">");
> out.print("<INPUT TYPE=\"PASSWORD\"
>name=\"password\">");
> out.print("<INPUT TYPE=\"SUBMIT\"
>name=\"submit\">");
> out.print("</FORM></BODY></HTML>");
> out.close();
>
>In the doPost method:
>
> String msg;
> HttpSession session =
>req.getSession(true);
Maybe you forgot something:
to retrieve values you should use
req.getParameter(FORM name element)
When retrieved you can put the value in your session.
if (req.getParameter("login") != null)
{
msg=req.getParameter("login");
session.putValue("login.text", msg);
}
> if (req.getParameter("submit") != null)
> {
>
>msg=(String)session.getValue("login.text");
>
>msg+=(String)session.getValue("password.text");
> System.out.println("The msg val
>is " + msg);
> res.setContentType("text/html");
>
> res.setHeader("pragma",
>"no-cache");
> PrintWriter out =
>res.getWriter();
>
>out.print("<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Values</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>");
> out.print(msg);
>
>
>****I get null values written to the html page on doPost().
>
>Please can anyone tell me why and how to correct this. Even if I write
>the doGet() code as hard coded html, it doesnt work.
>Basically all I want to do is print the name/password values entered
>from the user on the html page.
>
>Thnx
>
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