Re: GET and POST Methods Accepted

[Stephen de Vries <stephen () corsaire com>]

On 13 Oct 2005, at 10:02, christopher baus wrote:

> > I have seen this recently on J2EE sites and CGI (PERL, PYTHON,  
> > Binary).
>
> I know for a fact that this part of the Java servlet spec (POST's and
> GET's look exactly the same to servlet handler).  It gets confusing  
> if the
> POST request has parameters in the URL and the body which is legal.

This is not the case.  The HttpServlet class defines separate methods  
for each HTTP request.  So there is a doGet() and a doPost() method  
to handle forms and the container will direct the request to the  
appropriate method.  The developer would have to purposefully make  
them interchangeable by calling doPost() from within the doGet()  
method, or visa-versa.  See: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.1/ 
servlet-2.1.pdf for more info on the spec.