How to emulate a HTML Form Submission with a servelt?

[Gregory Cranz]

<p>I am using a search/indexing software package which has limited functionality in that it will only produce output from a form submission.</p>
<p>My thought is to create a servlet 'wrapper' which would provide an interafce so that I could call to the URL of the servlet, and provide it a search string as a parameter. The servlet would then perform the form submission and send the user to the resulting page. This is similar to page forwarding, but with more involved.</p>
<p>My question is, is this even possible & if so, then How?</p>

[Malhar Barai]

hi greg
Welcome to JavaRanch..
can u elaborate your query a bit more...
till what i understood...u can always imitate actions performed by HTML in servlets i.e just code the HTML in servlet & u can make the form work in the same way as it does in th HTML format...
but to be bang on target i need more info...
hope this helps
malhar

[Gregory Cranz]

I will elaborate:
I am attempting to use the Hummingbird Search Server (formerly known as Fulcrum) - and the caveat is that to get a response I need to complete a form submission. This apparently needs to be a POST operation, otherwise I would simply encode the parameters in the URL.
What I want to do is to write a servlet that takes a single parameter, performs a form submission including all of the hidden parameters and then forwards the user to the resulting page.