How to get Parameters in a jsp page called by VB program via xmlHttp

Question

I have a VB programm sending a request using xmlHttp.
xmlHttp.Open "POST", varTarget, True 'True means asynchronous
xmlHttp.Send xmlSendStr
This worked fine with ASP
the crucial ASP code was:
     set xml = server.createObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
     xml.load(request)
     VBData = cstr(xml.getElementsByTagName("value").item(0).firstChild.nodeValue)
now I have a webserver (tomcat) and try to have a simular functionality
but
request.getParameter()
seems not to do the job.
what do I have to do
I am thankfully looking forward to you reply
peter

Answer 1

Hi,
thanks for your reply!
If I have the parameters in the URL and use the method GET it works all right.
but I need the method to be POST. I suppose, I have the wrong way identifying the parameter name
This is from VB
varTarget = "http://localhost:9090/gm/getData" ' getData is my servlet
xmlSendStr = "SQLStmt=SELECT TCPD_Cars.* From TCPD_Cars WHERE (((TCPD_Cars.CarIdent)=45));"
    xmlHttp.Open "POST", varTarget, True   'True means asynchronous
    xmlHttp.Send xmlSendStrthis is part of my Servlet
     protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
               throws ServletException, IOException {
          response.setContentType("text/html");
          PrintWriter writer  = response.getWriter();
          String SQLStmt = request.getParameter("SQLStmt") ;
        //make the database query and get the returns
        writer.println(GetSQLData(SQLStmt));
        //close the write
        writer.close();                    
     }I would appreciate any suggestions