getParameter () method of HttpServletRequest

Hi ,

i am sending a request ( using JAVA code) to servlet as follows:

fldsmsrequest=<Request><ChannelID>IB</ChannelID><UserID>IB001</UserID><Password>lhfkgkniindnncfmnp</Password><ReferenceID>20080918109822</ReferenceID><LanguageID>1</LanguageID><CustomerNumber>111000</CustomerNumber><AccountNumber>111000</AccountNumber><TransactionType>C</TransactionType><SMSTemplateID>1039</SMSTemplateID><SendAsChannel>B</SendAsChannel><MobileNumber> ;971508168069</MobileNumber><EmailID>PoonamK.ext@adcb.com</EmailID><SMSTextValues>18-09-2008 05:31:23|1307494|110|11000</SMSTextValues><EmailTextValues><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><HTML><HEAD> <TITLE> New ocument </TITLE> <META NAME='Generator' CONTENT='EditPlus'/> <META NAME='Author' CONTENT=''/> <META NAME='Keywords' CONTENT=''/> <META NAME='Description' CONTENT=''/> </HEAD><BODY> <H1> hello </H1> </BODY></HTML></EmailTextValues><EmailTemplateID>0</EmailTemplateID><Filler2></Filler2><Filler3></Filler3><Filler4></Filler4><Filler5></Filler5></Request>

Servlet code is as follows:

but output is seen as

<Request><ChannelID>IB</ChannelID><UserID>IB001</UserID><Password>lhfkgkniindnncfmnp</Password><ReferenceID>20080918109822</ReferenceID><LanguageID>1</LanguageID><CustomerNumber>111000</CustomerNumber><AccountNumber>111000</AccountNumber><TransactionType>C</TransactionType><SMSTemplateID>1039</SMSTemplateID><SendAsChannel>B</SendAsChannel><MobileNumber>971508168069& lt;/MobileNumber><EmailID>PoonamK.ext@adcb.com</EmailID><SMSTextValues>18-09-2008 05:31:23|1307494|110|11000</SMSTextValues><EmailTextValues>

so <EmailTextValues> after this < > is not getting printed.

Please help me out.. as the <EmailTextValues> element contains ("ampersand lt;""ampersand gt;") characters . on this post it is coming as < and >

Thanks in advance.
[ September 18, 2008: Message edited by: neelam kamboj ]

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Are you properly URL encoding the request parameter value?

i have tried using . which doesn't work. Please help me which encoding need to be used.

Is the full value actually being transmitted? There are limits to how many characters GET will transmit. Try using POST instead.

I think Ulf has an important point ... when the amount of data that is being passed is big ... use of POST is recommended.

Did you try URLEncoder/Decoder ?
Before you pass a data in url it should be encoded. Once you receive the data in servlet you would need to de-encode it.

- Razi

Originally posted by Razi Abbas:
Once you receive the data in servlet you would need to de-encode it.

No. The call to getParameter() will return the already-decoded value.