André Warnier wrote: > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >>> From: Alan Chaney [mailto:a...@compulsivecreative.com] >>> Subject: Re: Reading POSTed data >>> >>> I don't want to appear picky, but that doesn't actually seem that >>> problematic. If you don't set the content type >>> as application/x-ww-form-urlencoded then you should be >>> able to read it via the input stream >> >> Agreed; I must have missed that sentence when I originally went >> exploring when the question came up. >> > Or as "multipart/form-data"... > Now this raises an additional nitpicking question : > It has been mentioned before, that Tomcat provides no standard > mechanism to read POST parameters that have been sent that way. > But, the servlet spec 3.0, at the end of section 3.1, says : > > "Data from the query string and the post body are aggregated into the > request parameter set. Query string data is presented before post body > data. For example, if a request is made with a query string of a=hello > and a post body of a=goodbye&a= world, the resulting parameter set > would be ordered a=(hello, goodbye, world)." > > Now, considering that, for a html <form>, it is entirely valid to send > form parameters using the "multipart/form-data" encoding, and > considering the above paragraph, where does that leave us ? > > It should mean that the getParameterMap() method, for instance, has at > least to "peek" at the body, determine if it /could/ contain > parameters, and if yes parse it to extract them. > If it does, then Tomcat /does/ contain code that can parse a > multipart/form-data body. > If it doesn't, then Tomcat does not respect the servlet spec. > Or ? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > Ok ...
1. servlet spec 3.0 is not finalized yet and someone might want to bring this up to them before it goes final (looks like that could be soon) 2. tomcat only has to look at the content type header of the post to see what kind of data is in the post. It doesn't have to peak at the post body. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
