Post HTML form..OIM

Hi,
In,The external application the password is encrypted with an unknown algorithm, additionally it is encrypted within the application and then stored encryoted in the Oracle database. Requires OIM to pass the UserID of the user , Old and New Password, and a appliaction Password Change Wrapper to change the password in external application and send to application DB. Admin PW reset will utilize a service ID with ID/PW Admin privileges.
Here ,when admin changes password in OIM, he dont need to put old password , he just enters new password but for our application it needs to know old password,Can I get it in OIM??
Another approach I am thinking is we have another application in sync with it, and there password is decrypted, so when the admin clicks the change password button, post a form with userd of the user and and service userid and password and then send to the application and it will pick it up and return the error or success code to OIM? Does it is feasible in OIM? To post a HTML form?
Thanks

You can implement a Thread that creates the URL string with all the parameters and opens the URL connection after which it sleeps for the particular duration (10 mins in your case).

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Auto Post HTML Form

Hi,
Does anyone know how I automatically post to a Web site HTML Form.
I have the following scenario... I have a web site (which requires log on) and I would like to generate a HTML FORM post automatically every 10 mins.
The timing is not an issue, neither is getting the initial connection to the log-on URL.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Angus

You can implement a Thread that creates the URL string with all the parameters and opens the URL connection after which it sleeps for the particular duration (10 mins in your case).

How to fill out POST HTML forms from my Java Application?

Hi -
I am writing a little Java GUI program that will allow a user to fill out data from the GUI and then submit that data. When they submit the data (two text fields) I want to take the two text fields and submit them via the POST form method of a HTML document over the web.
Here is what I got so far:
host = new URL("http", "<my_address>", web port, "/query.html");
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Here is how one of my e-books go about Posting
I tryied in one of my projects and it works ok
(Tricks of the Java Programming Gurus)
There's another reason you may want to manipulate a URLConnection object directly: You may want to post data to a URL, rather than just fetching a document. Web browsers do this with data from online forms, and your applets might use the same mechanism to return data to the server after giving the user a chance to supply information.
As of this writing, posting is only supported to HTTP URLs. This interface will likely be enhanced in the future-the HTTP protocol supports two ways of sending data to a URL ("post" and "put"), while FTP, for example, supports only one. Currently, the Java library sidesteps the issue, supporting just one method ("post"). Eventually, some mechanism will be needed to enable applets to exert more control over how URLConnection objects are used for output.
To prepare a URL for output, you first create the URL object just as you would if you were retrieving a document. Then, after gaining access to the URLConnection object, you indicate that you intend to use the connection for output using the setDoOutput method:
URL gather = new URL("http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/gather.cgi");
URLConnection c = gather.openConnection();
c.setDoOutput(true); Once you finish the preparation, you can get the output stream for the connection, write your data to it, and you're done:
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(c.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes("name=Bloggs%2C+Joe+David&favoritecolor=blue");
out.close();
//MY COMMENT
//This part can be improved using the URLEncoder
//******************************************************You might be wondering why the data in the example looks so ugly. That's a good question, and the answer has to do with the limitation mentioned previously: Using URL objects for output is only supported for the HTTP protocol. To be more accurate, version 1.0 of the Java library really only supports output-mode URL objects for posting forms data using HTTP.
For mostly historical reasons, HTTP forms data is returned to the server in an encoded format, where spaces are changed to plus signs (+), line delimiters to ampersands (&), and various other "special" characters are changed to three-letter escape sequences. The original data for the previous example, before encoding, was the following:
name=Bloggs, Joe David
favoritecolor=blue If you know enough about HTTP that you are curious about the details of what actually gets sent to the HTTP server, here's a transcript of what might be sent to www.foo.com if the example code listed previously were compiled into an application and executed:
POST /cgi-bin/gather.cgi HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Java1.0
Referer: http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/gather.cgi
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: 43name=Bloggs%2C+Joe+David&favoritecolor=blue
Java takes care of building and sending all those protocol headers for you, including the Content-length header, which it calculates automatically. The reason you currently can send only forms data is that the Java library assumes that's all you will want to send. When you use an HTTP URL object for output, the Java library always labels the data you send as encoded form data.
Once you send the forms data, how do you read the resulting output from the server? The URLConnection class is designed so that you can use an instance for both output and input. It defaults to input-only, and if you turn on output mode without explicitly setting input mode as well, input mode is turned off. If you do both explicitly, however, you can both read and write using a URLConnection:
c.setDoOutput(true);
c.setDoInput(true); The only unfortunate thing is that, although URLConnection was designed to make such things possible, version 1.0 of the Java library doesn't support them properly. As of this writing, a bug in the library prevents you from using a single HTTP URLConnection for both input and output.
//MY COMMENTS
When you doing URL encoding
you should not encode it as one string becouse then it will encode the '=' signes and '&' signes also
you should encode all the field names and values seperatly and then join them using '&'s and '='s
Ex:-
public static void addField(StringBuffer sb,String name, String value){
   if (sb.length()>0){
      sb.append("&");
   sb.append(URLEncoder.encode(name,"UTF-8"));
   sb.append("=");
   sb.append(URLEncoder.encode(value,"UTF-8"));
}

Receive HTML form redirected to a procedure "URL"

Hi there,
can I receive a posted "html" form inside a procedure?
here is what I mean:
I used to have a URL that is actually a procedure, which draw HTML page using the htp package,
the URL is 4 example : http://www.somehost.domain/proc_name?p1=...&p2=...
the procedure is defined as follows :
create or replace procedure proc_name(p1 varchar2, p2 varchar2) is
begin
-- the code
end;HTML page posts a form with two parameters p1 and p2 will direct to the page defined and processed by the "proc_name",
but how can I have the request received into this procedure and then get the parameters,
that analogues to what java's developers can, get the request and then extract the parameters from it.
I need this because the form directed to the procedure actually use some action map to back the parameters and then redirect to my procedure.
any suggestions please ! help is appreciated.
Best Regards,
Edited by: Knowledgestudent on May 12, 2010 10:28 PM

Values for Parameter variable (p1 and p2 in this case) will be inside the procedure.
You are using MOD_PLSQL correct?
MOD_PLSQL information:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b12303.pdf
Passing paramters into PL/SQL procedures...
Oracle documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96590/adgweb.htm
Do CTRL-F for Passing Entry Field Parameters from an HTML Form in the page above.
The examples in the page above just work fine.
vr,
Sudhakar B.

HTML form posting with input type="file"

Hi,
I am trying to create a servlet to accept POST requests sent from a form which has an input field of type="file".
When I first tried I found that I was only recieving the filename of the file and not getting any contents.. I then found out that I needed enctype="multipart/form-data" in my html form tag.
Now my servlet isn't picking up any of the form data plus the reader returned by HttpServletRequest.getReader() just throws an IOException whenever I use it..
I have tried to google for how to get this working but I haven't found much. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks cool..
I also found this after some late night googling..
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1045507
I'm trying to not use one of these utility classes for now until I find out exactly how they get their data from the HttpServletRequest object..

Render html form & send forms's input values as params via HTTP POST

Hello,
I'm using appache commons http client to send HTTP post queries to a given url and receive HTTP response then process it.
one of the requirements of my Application is the following: one of these HTTP Post requests is supposed to return an HTML form with different html types (text filed, text area etc..) that i will need to display in my swing application. one important requirement is that i can't know in advance what the html form field types will be.. it depends on a given parameters that my application send as part of HTTP Post method (using apache http client).
I Longly searched for a simple solution to this problem . There are many solutions but each one has it's limitations :
1-i can render the html form inside a JEditorPane .but how can I collect the user entered data inside JEditorPane ? i'm not sure this swing component offers the capability to detect its html contents and more it will be difficult to know what are the values entered by user inside html form rendered by JEditorPane.
2-are there any Java Embedded browsers that offer some API to enable me detect the html form fields ,capture the data entered by user inside the html form ?
3-the solution i currently opted for is : parse html & convert html form to swing dialog. currently this solution i use works well but the cost of implementing it is high : it involves difficult parsing logic. this makes me worried .I'm not sure if i'm now using the right & easiest solution.
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dragzul wrote:
In my opinion, your actual solution is what you need to do. You're trying to "merge" two different kinds of view. Actually, the "easiest" way may be: if you have your data to display, you decide to show it on html or swing.Yes i believe that my current solution may be the unique one for my special requirements. when doing research about this problem i found a multitude of java libraries to convert xml to swing (ex: www.swixml.org) .However i was surprised there are no java libraries to convert HTML forms to swing dialogs -as far as i know-. this is a bit strange. The Limitation is that the developers of the server API are not Java guys and are reluctant to use an xml format that i can easily convert to swing . probably they have their own reasons as they might be using the HTML Response for some other server side work. So I was obliged to deal with an HTML stream that i need to display in my client application and process its data. in my opinion the only way to do this is by developing a HTML form to swing converter package. that's what i did now. i was only worried if i'm complicating things and if there are some easier solutions to this issue.
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How to read a file as an input stream after it's posted in an HTML form ?

Hello,
I want to read client file after it's posted in an HTML form. But, I don't want to upload it to filesystem or database. I want to read posted file as an input stream. How can I do that ?
thanks in advance...

A couple of things. If you have a FILE field in your form, the enctype of the form must be multipart/form-data. Check this link
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/form.html
Also, when a file is uploaded you cannot use the regular methods to get at the name/value pairs or the file itself. You'll have to use a utility like MultiPartRequest or write your own based on the RFC for Multipart requests.
http://www.servlets.com/cos/javadoc/com/oreilly/servlet/MultipartRequest.html
You will need some temporary file system to store this and then delete it when you are done with it.
hth

Urgent :post xml for xsql difference with html form post

Hi,
We are developing an application to process xml request
posted by external party. The requests arrive by
http-post operation
We developed and tested with an html-form.
Now we encounter problems in testing with http-post
The xsql page is processed correctly but
insert only fixed text when formatting xml-data as input for
the insert-request, string inserted is empty.
Everything is by the book and html-forms works great.
Is anybody else using xsql to insert xml data in the database on this version? Maybe can you help by looking into a testcase ? Issued a tar but am on terrible deadline
so need help very soon.
Details: HP-UX 11.11 Oracle 9.2.0.4 java1.4 ojdbc 1.4
Tnx in advance,
Jeroen

Mark,
Have an external partner which sends xml-requests.
Have to read those, store them and process them.
Idea is let them
1)post the xml at a url where an xsql page is reading the xml
2) transforming this for an insert into
the database. The column is defined to store the complete xml-message.
3) A trigger takes care of processing the stuff and preparing the output
4) and a query in the xsql-page reads the output from an output table
When developing and testing this with an html-form that posts the xml is works great.
$ cat newclobins.xsql
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<page connection="demo" xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql" >
<xsql:set-session-param name="id">
select msgid.nextval from dual
</xsql:set-session-param>
<xsql:dml>
delete cbs_msg_in where id={@id}
</xsql:dml>
<xsql:insert-request table="cbs_msg_in" column="id,msg" transform="cbsform_1.xsl"/>
<data>
<xsql:query null-indicator="yes">
select msgid,msg from cbs_xml_out where msgid={@id}
</xsql:query>
</data>
</page>
$ cat cbsform_1.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ROWSET xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xsl:version="1.0">
<xsl:for-each select="request">
<ROW>
<MSG><xsl:value-of select="parameters/doc" /></MSG>
<ID><xsl:value-of select="session/id" /></ID>
</ROW>
</xsl:for-each>
</ROWSET>
1) When using a tool like
http://www.programmersheaven.com/articles/adrian/getpost/article.html it fails with
No rows to modify -- the row enclosing tag missing. Specify the correct row enclosing tag.
2) When using the commandline utility like
xsql jeroen5.xsql posted-xml=test3.xml
this works great when inserting plain text but not
when inserting xml-format data into a column
So problem 1 is why external tools like above or my partner that uses .net to do something similar gives this strange error?
Problem nr 2 is should I stick to just the data in xml and forget about storing the xml-formatted data?
Hope you can help because I am getting quite desparate here.
Regards,
Jeroen

JEditorPane can't handle POST from HTML form?

I posted this before but i never got an answer so i'll try again :-)
Im running a tomcat server were i have a jsp script that uploads files to the server. What i need to do to is to use a regular java application for the rest of the "project" im working on.
And i can get the JSP page to be displayed properly using JEditorPane but i cant get the html FORM POST in the JSP to execute... i dont know if theres some limits in JEditorPane or if im just using the wrong type of approach on this one.
This is the server
http://chilly-schrimp.kicks-ass.org/uploadbean/SimpleUpload.jsp
(only works if my computer is turned on)
Heres the code:
=======================================================================
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.io.*;
public class JSPtest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JEditorPane pane = null;
try {
pane = new JEditorPane("http://chilly-schrimp.kicks-ass.org/uploadbean/SimpleUpload.jsp");
catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace(System.err);
System.exit(1);
pane.setEditable(false);
// Add a hyperlink listener.
final JEditorPane finalPane = pane;
pane.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent ev) {
try {
if (ev.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED)
finalPane.setPage(ev.getURL());
} catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(System.err); }
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setContentPane(new JScrollPane(finalPane));
frame.setSize(350,400);
frame.setVisible(true);
=======================================================================
any suggestions??
thanx
/eric

I am using request.getParameter(passed variable name)
to pass data from HTML form to JSP with no problem.
WHen I try to pass data from HTML form of
multipart/form-dta type to JSP as following:
< form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="theForm"
method="post"
ACTION="http://titan.ssd.loral.com:7778/ifs/jsp-bin/if
-cts/stringsecond.jsp">
The passed value is null. Why?because the jsp most likely does not handling of POST parameters like this.
How can I pass data successfully from this form to
JSP?jsp's are not meant to read such amounts of data. this (= uploading) is a typical task for a specialized servlet. there you have full control over input and output. if you need to, you can still forward to a jsp after processing in the servlet.
How can I pass data from JavaScript to JSP???? i'm not sure what exactly you mean. normally you put it into an url and submit it.
robert

Solved: process POST from html form

Hello,
I have the next question, I have a public website (in an other technology) that uses the "POST" method of an html form to navigate to my application.
One of the fields on the html form is the field "name".
I was wondering if their is any possibility to get the value of the field "name" when I come on my ApEx page?
I hope i'm making some sense here.
Thanks in advance
Kind regards,
Oli

Perhaps this will help....
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=9487:65
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How to submit a html form using java

hi friends,
i have a html form with some input fields, when ever a user submit the form the user information is stored in the database. is it possible to pass the user information in the url(url rewriting) and submit it by a java program so that the data will be stored in the database, as like as, user submit it manually.
for eg:
/*sample.html*/
<form action="store.jsp" method="post">
User Data:<input type="text" name="userdata">
<input type="submit">
</form>
in my java is it possible to store the record as below:
URL url=new URL("http://localhost:7001/webapp/store.jsp?userdata=AutomaticDatasave");
URLConnection con=url.openConnection();
int i=0;
while((i=con.getInputStream().read())!=-1)
System.out.print(i);/*it has to print the data that store.jsp is returned like information stored or error storing data(what ever)*/
}Edited by: rajaram on Oct 27, 2007 1:01 AM

hi Drclap,
Thanks for your reply, which is helpful to me....
tried what you said, what i did is modified the code like below
con.setDoOutput(true);
BufferedWriter br=new BufferedWriter(new InputStreamWriter(con.getOutputStream()));
String str="userdata=AutomateDataSave\n";
br.write(str,0,str.length());
br.flush()But
Iam Getting Internal Server Error
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL
Edited by: rajaram on Oct 27, 2007 1:24 AM

How to retrieve data from the HTML form in the JEditorPane?

I could quite easily use JEditorPane to render and display a simple HTML file.
My HTML looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<title> simple form</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="cccccc">
<center><h1>SURVEY THING</h1>
</center>
<form id="survey">
<p>1.Type something in.</p>
<textarea cols=25 rows=8>
</textarea>
<BR>
<p>2.Pick ONLY one.</p>
<input type="radio" name="thing" value="0" Checked> NO choice <BR>
<input type="radio" name="thing" value="1"> First choice <BR>
<input type="radio" name="thing" value="2"> Second choice
<BR>
<p>3.Pick all you like.</p>
<input type="checkbox" name="stuff" value="A"> A <BR>
<input type="checkbox" name="stuff" value="B"> B <BR>
<input type="checkbox" name="stuff" value="C"> C <BR>
<input type="submit" value="give data">
<input type="reset" value="do clensing">
</form>
</body>
</html>
It gets diplayed fine and I can type in text, select radio buttons (they behave mutualy-exclusive,
as they should) and check checkboxes.
The problem I have is with retrieving the values which were entered into the form.
If I, after editing, try to write the html to the file using HTMLWriter,
it records the changes I made into the textarea, however all the radio and checkbox selections are lost.
Maybe the problem is that when I enter the values I do not use any methods like
insertBeforeStart and so on, but I believe I shouldn't need to use them to populate a form.
Especially I never change the structure of the HTML.
Also, when I try to traverse the Element tree and see the input elements attributes,
I can never see a change in the entered values. However it is probably b/c I am traversing through
the model and the changes are in the view (just a guess.)
Anyway, if anybody could direct me onto the right path: how to retrieve the values typed in the form,
or if it is possible at all in the JEditorPane, I would greatly appreciate.
thanks
maciej
PS. I have seen the answer to a similar question posted some time last year. However, I am trying
to find a soultion which allows forms/surveys to be built by people who have no java and only basic
html knwledge. And Axualize way is probably a little bit too "high-tech."

Maybe helpful for u.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.Container;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
public class TestHtmlInput extends JFrame {
     JEditorPane pane=new JEditorPane();
     public TestHtmlInput() {
          super();
          pane.setEditorKit(new HTMLEditorKit());
          pane.setText("<HTML><BODY><FORM>" +
          "<p>1.Input your name.</p>" +
          "<INPUT TYPE='text' name='firstName'>" +
          "<p>2.Input your information.</p>" +
          "<TEXTAREA rows='20' name='StationDescriptions' cols='100'>" +
          "<p>3.Pick ONLY one.</p>" +
          "<input type='radio' name='thing' value='0' Checked> NO choice <BR>" +
          "<input type='radio' name='thing' value='1'> First choice <BR>" +
          "<input type='radio' name='thing' value='2'> Second Choice <BR>" +
          "<p>4.Pick all you like.</p>" +
          "<input type='checkbox' name='stuff' value='A'> A <BR>" +
          "<input type='checkbox' name='stuff' value='B'> B <BR>" +
          "<input type='checkbox' name='stuff' value='C'> C <BR>" +
          "<p>5.Choose your nationality.</p>" +
          "<select name='natio'>" +
          "<option>12</option>" +
          "<option selected>13</option>" +
          "</select>" +
          "</FORM></BODY></HTML>");
          this.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(pane));
          JButton b=new JButton("print firstName text");
          b.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    System.out.println("Number of Components in JTextPane: " + pane.getComponentCount());
                    for (int i = 0; i < pane.getComponentCount(); i++) {
                         //NOTE FOR BELOW: know its a Container since all Components inside a JTextPane are instances of the inner class
                         //ComponentView$Invalidator which is a subclass of the Container Class (ComponentView$Invalidator extends Container)
                         Container c = (Container)pane.getComponent(i);
                         //the component of this containers will be the Swing equivalents of the HTML Form fields (JButton, JTextField, etc.)
                         //Get the # of components inside the ComponentView$Invalidator (the above container)
                         Component swingComponentOfHTMLInputType = c.getComponent(0);
                         //each ComponentView$Invalidator will only have one component at array base 0
                         //DISPLAY OF WHAT JAVA CLASS TYPE THE COMPONENT IS
                         System.out.println(i + ": " + swingComponentOfHTMLInputType.getClass().getName());
                         //this will show of what type the Component is (JTextField, JRadioButton, etc.)
                         if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JTextField) {
                              JTextField tf = (JTextField)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType;
                              //downcast and we have the reference to the component now!! :)
                              System.out.println(" Text: " + tf.getText());
                              tf.setText("JTextField found!");
                         } else if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JButton) {
                         } else if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JComboBox) {
                                 JComboBox combo = (JComboBox)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType;
                                 System.out.println(" Selected index: " + combo.getSelectedIndex());
                            } else if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JRadioButton) {
                                 JRadioButton radio = (JRadioButton)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType;
                                 System.out.println(" Selected: " + new Boolean(radio.isSelected()).toString());
                         } else if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JCheckBox) {
                                 JCheckBox check = (JCheckBox)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType;
                                 check.setSelected(true);
                                 System.out.println(" Selected: " + new Boolean(check.isSelected()).toString());
                         } else if (swingComponentOfHTMLInputType instanceof JScrollPane) {
                              JScrollPane pane = (JScrollPane)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType;
                              for (int j=0; j<pane.getComponentCount(); j++) {
                                   //JTextArea area = (JTextArea)swingComponentOfHTMLInputType.getComponent(0);
                                   Container c2 = (Container)pane.getComponent(j);
                                   for (int k=0; k<c2.getComponentCount(); k++) {
                                        Component c3 = (Component)c2.getComponent(k);
                                        if (c3 instanceof JTextArea) {
                                             JTextArea area = (JTextArea)c3;
                                             System.out.println(" " + area.getClass().getName());
                                             System.out.println("     Text: " + area.getText());
                                             area.setText("JTextArea found!");
                         } else {
          this.getContentPane().add(b,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          TestHtmlInput app = new TestHtmlInput();
          app.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
          app.setSize( 400, 900 );
          app.setVisible( true );
}

Can Java be used to save content of HTML form to a file?

We have an application that saves a pdf file to a location on our webserver. The file displays on the users machine in a browser window. I have created a link in the links bar of the browser window which launches a simple HTML page. This page allows the user to enter a number of fields and click 'SAVE'. This is where I am having the problem. I need the save button to firstly create a csv file on the webserver containing the details input by the user. I then need the pdf file saved to the web server with a new name and in the same location as the csv file. is there anyway to achieve this using Java or can anyone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks

<<Click on the SAVE button in an HTML <form> and the browser will perform an HTTP POST of the data to a URL. Make that URL point to a Java servlet and it can take that form data
<<and write it to the webserver file system in any format you wish, including csv and pdf.
agree with duffy. You can also use JSP and call a class method to handle whatever data you specify.
orozcom

How can I change the order of html form data submitted to me via email?

I am having customers contact me via an html form posted on my website using the "sendtoemail" command. When I receive the data in an e-mail it is not presented in the order it appears on the web page and I can't seem to find out what dictates the order the data is presented in or how I can change it.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can make HTML form data elements appear in the order I want?
Thanks,
Andy

Or find a commercial form-to-email script that is compatible with your server's configuration (PHP, ASP, Perl...) and customize it to your needs.
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Nancy O.

Error when using a HTML form along with a servlet

Hi All,
I am using Sun Studio 4 to create a HTML form that takes in 4 inputs and then
passes them on to a servlet to be processed.
In my HTML form i have the form heading.. <form method = post action="processServlet">
my directory structure is as follows:
/home/cosmo/projects/testservlet/processServlet ... processServlet being the servlet underneath the testservlet directory.
inputForm.html is also under the same testservlet directory. I am running TOMCAT.. and under the run time tab under tomcat --> Internal --> it has localhost:8081 and under that the default context is /home/cosmo/projects/testservlet
NOW, when i execute my HTML page the URL on top says "http://localhost:8081/inputForm.html
which seems correct. I get my form correctly. When i input the data,and i hit the submit button, the URL says "http://localhost:8081/processServlet" which i think is also correct, but i get a "404 Error and the error description says " The requested resource( /processServlet)
is not available." I have coded the servlet to give me just a few lines of output, but instead, the above error shows up.
Why would this be happening? Do i have my directory structure messed up? Do i have the wrong type of template? I used a web module to do this. I also compiled my Servlet from Sun Studio without any errors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Kal.

You can't post directly to a servlet the way you can to an HTML or JSP page. You must map your requests to specific servlets for the request to get directed there. There are entries in the web.xml for this.
You need to map the request for "processServlet" to "edu.xxx.yyy.processServlet", or the servlet engine won't know what to do with that request.
Often times, an app will route all requests for a particular extension to a router servlet, which then figures out which class to actually send the request to. This keeps you from having to map all servlets in the web.xml file.

Post HTML form..OIM

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