hi Mark ,
u have given a good way to handle the problem but not the solution to it.
Actually it really surprises me when some one says , a prob is accruing only
sometimes.
Mike check our for any spaces that u might be giving after the "=" sign.
TARUN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: Getting a Null Pointer Exception from a getParameter ... but
only sometimes
> Test the value of url as null and length as in
>
> try {
> if( request.getParameter( url) != null
> && request.getParameter( url).length > 1) {
>
> [do all your stuff]
>
> } else { [log an error] }
> } catch()
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Dizon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:48 AM
>
> I'm having problems with a servlet that I have written. The problem occurs
> only SOMETIMES! , and I can't figure out why it works sometimes, and other
> times not. The getParameter is taking in a string representation of a URL
> based on input from the browser input. Such as
> http://localhost/servlet?url=http://anotherwebsite.com
> It works most of the time, but on some websites I get the Null Pointer
> exception, and sometimes I try again and it works. Also, I did a
> System.out.println(url) and it prints out as Null when I get the Null
> Pointer.
>
>
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