Doh! You're absolutely right. I scanned through the docs quickly when I answered and grabbed the wrong "encode" method.
And yes, it should be thread safe.
Sorry for the incorrect info...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Haberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How can I get parameters with '&' in it ?
Two things:
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.encodeURL() dosn't do anything
if you're not using sessions. Is that a correct statement?
The answer seems to be in URLEncoder.encode(); It does the job!
This is a static class method. Can I assume it's thread safe (i.e. it
only accesses stack variables)?
thanks again!!!
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:14:04PM -0500, Chris Murphy wrote:
> You need to encode the value of the url parameter.
>
> Look at the javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.encodeURL(String url)
> method.
>
> NOTE: you only want to encode the values, not the names, of the parameters.
> And it's
> good practice to always do this.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Haberman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 8:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How can I get parameters with '&' in it ?
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a servlet that reads in parameters from a get request. The
> problem is that one of the parameters is a url. If that url
> has an '&' in it, then the parameters are split around it.
>
> for example:
>
> <A HREF = "mysevlet?name=bob&age=23&url=http://blah.com/runme?a=b&c=7">
>
> in myservlet i get
> name:bob
> age:23
> url:http:..runme?
> a:b
> c:7
>
> What's the fix so I only get three parameters?
>
> thanks for your time!
>
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