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Servlet Programming (O'Reilly, 1999)
Perl 5 Interactive Course (Waite, 1997)
Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (Prentice Hall, 2000)
The C++ Standard Library (Addison-Wesley, 1999)
JavaScript The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 1999)
MySQL (New Riders, 1999)
Professional PHP Programming (Wrox, 1999)
Professional Java Server Programming (Wrox, 1999)

Accepting POST method input

For longer forms with more data, the GET method is not always appropriate. Fortunately, servlets support POST method input just as easily. To convert our MyServlet to process POST method input, we implement the servlet's doPost() method as follows:

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;


// MyServlet.java



public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet
{ 
 public void doGet ( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res ) 
 throws ServletException, IOException { 
  String name = req.getParameter("name");
  res.setContentType( "text/html"); 
  PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); 
  out.println( "<html><body>" );          
  out.println( "Hello there, " + name); 
  out.close(); 
 } 

 public void doPost ( HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res ) 
 throws ServletException, IOException { 
  res.setContentType( "text/html"); 
  PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); 
  out.println( "<html><body>" );          
  out.println( "Your post has been received:<BR><BR>");
  out.println(req.getParameter("name")); 
  out.println( req.getParameter("address")); 
  out.println( req.getParameter("city")); 
  out.println( req.getParameter("phone")); 
  out.close(); 
 } 

}

You could use the following HTML form to post data to this servlet.

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=http://www.yourdomain.com/servlet/MyServlet">
<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=name> Name<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=address> Address<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=city> City<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=text NAME=phone> Phone<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=submit>

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