Agreed. In my experience, the request object should be considered static and simply read using the methods included in the class for that purpose.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike W-M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:22 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: bug in Tomcat 4 or .... what? > > > From the Servlet Spec (2.3)'s section on the getParameter() method: > << > If the parameter data was sent in the request body, such as > occurs with an > HTTP POST request, then reading the body directly via > getInputStream() or > getReader() can interefere with the execution of this method. > >> > I believe there's other stuff in there too about not > expecting everything to > work as normal if you go low-level messing around with the request. > > Mike. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ivan Venuti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:31 PM > Subject: bug in Tomcat 4 or .... what? > > > Hi, > > I have a servlet that opens a DataInputStrem on the request > (see below) > > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) > throws ServletException { > > try{ > // Open the I/O streams > DataInputStream in = new > DataInputStream(request.getInputStream() ); > > After this pice of code I cant' access any more to the > request parameters. > Infact this code: > > request.getParameter("anyParameter") > > retrieves ALWAYS null. > The strange thing is that this servlet was Ok for tomcat 3, > but can't work > any more with Tomcat4. > > Anyone can explain why opening a DataInputStream alters the > HttpServletRequest? > > Thanks > > -- Ivan Venuti -- > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
