Look at the "method" attribute of the <form> element in HTML, and form
submission:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.13
-- Bill K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swart, James (Jim) ** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:51 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: About GET and POST methods
>
>
> as far as I know, if you are going to send information to a
> servlet from a
> input form (html or jsp) you have to use a GET when invoking
> the servlet? At
> least, that's how mine are developed.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Schweigkoffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:07 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: About GET and POST methods
>
>
> Hi folks !
>
> Being a newbie concerning the use of Tomcat I am marvelling about the
> following :
>
> On SunOS 5.8 I have installed Tomcat 3.2.1 connected to Apache 1.3.19
> via mod_jk.so with both an AJP12 (port 8007) and an AJP13 (port 8009)
> handler installed.
>
> The Apache Server is listening on ports 80, 1080, 2080 and
> 8080, while,
> for test purposes, I added a Tomcat Http Connection handler on
> port 7080.
>
> Now, we have written a test servlet with differing doGet and doPost
> methods and an HTML page containing a form that uses method POST, and
> we observe the following behaviour :
>
> o When defining the form's action to directly invoke the servlet via
> Tomcat on port 7080, method doPost is invoked,
>
> o however, when defining action to invoke the servlet via Apache
> on one of the other ports mentioned above, always method doGet
> is invoked.
>
> Is there any explanation for that - at least to me - surprising
> behaviour ? Did I overlook anything ? Or is it intended to work
> that way ?
>
> Thank you very much for your kind assistance
> Rainer
>
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