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pick a body of http post in servlet

I have a java app in which I posted a long text message to a servlet app.

I looked thru the HttpServletRequest class. it is not obvious how I pick up the text I sent. the text data is not in an attribute, since I did not do a form post.

the HttpServletRequest object has a inputbuffer, which seems to be full of data. but how do I get to it?

Manikandan Thiagarajan

could you post the code now

bhomass

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client side I did
              m_url = new URL ("http://"+SERVER+"/" + PROJPATH +"/"+ NEWREQUEST);
              m_urlConn = m_url.openConnection();

              m_urlConn.setDoInput (true);
              m_urlConn.setDoOutput (true);
              m_urlConn.setUseCaches (false);

              // Specify the content type.
//             urlConn.setRequestProperty
//                  ("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

              // Send POST output.
              m_req_os = new DataOutputStream (m_urlConn.getOutputStream ());
              String content =
                        "lots lots of text";

       m_req_os.writeBytes (content);
              m_req_os.flush ();

server side I have
      public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException{
            this.request = request;
// herer is my question. How do I get content sent by the client?
      }

Ajay-Singh

In the serverSide, try adding this code:

ServletInputStream in = request.getInputStream();
...

bhomass

ASKER

I tried that. followed by

            ServletInputStream is = request.getInputStream();
            byte buf[] = new byte[1000];
            String contentString = "";
            int nread = 0;
            while (-1!=(nread=is.read(buf))){
                  contentString += new String(buf, 0, nread);
            }

but, I got 0 char's out of the input strream???

bhomass

ASKER

ok, I added "body=" in front of the content in the client, and got it from request.getParameter("body") in the server;

not as elegant as I wanted, but this is good enough for me.

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