How to make doPost as default service

Hi,

I have a servlet and user directly can access the server something like :

http://localhost:8080/doSomeThing.do

where doSomeThing.do is the URL pattern.

My web server is tomcat 6.

Now by default the http method here is Get and my doGet is getting called.

If i use RequestDispatcher's forward method to forward the request to any other Servlet and JSP then also its a GET and not POST.

Can i force it to call POST instead of GET?

Thanks.

It is possible to call the POST method from the GET method if you want to ensure that a response is sent for your request. I am not sure what it is that you are trying to do so that reply may or may not help

No you cannot turn a GET request into a POST. You'll need to generate a new request to do that.

Thanks for your replies.

How do i generate a new request?

Do you mean creating a new HttpServletRequest ?

No, he means have the browser make a new request to the server.

Have you implemented doPost and doGet already in your servlet?
If not, why don't you follow John's advice and have doGet call doPost?

Thanks i got it.

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;
public class serlife extends HttpServlet
{
int i=0;
public void init()
{ i=0;}
public void service(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException,IOException
{
doPost(req,res);
}
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)throws ServletException,IOException
{
res.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter pr=res.getWriter();
pr.println("<html><body>");
if(i==0)
{
pr.println("<br>i value at initialized = "+i);
}
i++;
if(i==5)
{
pr.println("<br>i value reach at = "+i);
pr.println("<br>it going to reset calling by destroy method");
destroy();
}
if(i<5)
{
pr.println("<br>The increment value i at ="+i);

}
}
public void destroy()
{i=0;}
}

Can I get that behaviour , if I call doPost() method inside doGet () mehtod ?

Naw. Thats bad. You never override service for something like that

Thats bad too. We have JSPs and tags for a reason. It is so that we can get the clutter out of the servlet

Can I get that behaviour , if I call doPost() method inside doGet () mehtod ?

What is the behavior you are talking about ? You will have to try one of the suggestions mentioned above by all the posters

Originally posted by pdommara Kumar:
Can I get that behaviour , if I call doPost() method inside doGet () mehtod ?

Yes