request.getAttribute and request.getParameter

[Brusk Baran]

It seems that even though I explicitly equate the attribute to null in a forwarded jsp page (which will forward itself again to the calling page later); the calling page still has access to the parameters sent to it via a form.
Attribute names @ request scope and the parameter names (which are naturally in the request scope) refer not to the same thing actually ??
It is confusing...

[Bear Bibeault]

Parameters and attributes are completely separate items.
Parameters are generated by submission parameters (be they form elements or query string parameters), while attributes are placed onto a request under code control. They really have not a thing to do with each other.
bear

[Brusk Baran]

ja Bear,
thx, I thought they were the same since both reside on the request scope; and did a small design on this a priori assumption; on which some request parameters wander around strangely.
But handled them appropriately after your post. Created a new req. attribute and check it afterwards in the forwarded pages.
Merci,
B. Baran