request getAttribute getParameter

[FY Hsieh]

I passed a paramer name value by doing

http://.../Hello.action?v1=value1&v2=value2

In the action class I found I can get

v1's value by

request.getAttribute("v1").toString();

I thought I can only get this value by

request.getParameter("v1")

because it is passed by parameter in URL. Why can I get it from

getAttribute as well ?

I never set it in

request.setAttribute() ...

[Bear Bibeault]

You can't. Something is setting it up as a scoped attribute somewhere.