TEXTAREA with servlets

Hi,
I am writing a servlet where I need to retain the text the user entered in an HTML TEXTAREA after a page refresh.
Upon page refresh, I send the value of the TEXTAREA to the servlet via the URL. I then populate the TEXTAREA's default value with req.getParameter(<my textarea value>).
My problem is this: carriage returns are lost. How can I retain them when I pass the value using only Javascript?
Below is a bit of my code. ldifHeaders contains the value of the TEXTAREA captured via Javascript <field>.value.
out.println("function refreshPage(mailPlatform)");
out.println("{");
out.println(" window.location.replace('"+sServletPath+"/MailSystemDetails?LDIFHeaders='+ldifHeaders);");
out.println("}");

Hi,
Try using the escape sequence to translate the URL
As far as I remember, the carriage return will be
translated into "%0D"
/SlashWould you know how to break up the value returned from the javascript <textarea>.value?
If I can break this value up into tokens, I can manually build the URL like you mentioned. Thanks.

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