acessing data of the textarea within the form of multipart type

[ramu av]

i'm trying to access the text in the textarea which is a member of a form
with ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data". this form also has a browse button to upload files.

i'm able to upload the file using this form but the text area gives a null value.

i'm sending the code snippet. please help me out.


ramu

<FORM name = file ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" method=post action="Upload">
File Name  : <INPUT TYPE="file"  NAME="currentfilename">
<textarea name=Desc></textarea>
</FORM>
 
request.getParameter("Desc");
 
gives a null value

[Jeremy Wilson]

If you are not adverse to using apache project libraries, look at the apache jakarta commons projects

fileupload and httpclient

they offer some very good libraries in working with multipart forms that have file attachments.

Jeremy