Is it possible to obtain URL Encoded Params in an Applet?

[Corey McGlone]

Simply put, is it possible for a page (let's call it myAppletPage.html) to have URL Encoded Parameters and get them into an Applet?
I'd like to link to a page like this:

<a href="http://www.somewhere.com/myAppletPage?param1=value1¶m2=value2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.somewhere.com/myAppletPage?param1=value1¶m2=value2</a>

And have those two parameters and their values accessible by the Applet? Is there a way to do that?
Thanks,
Corey

[Thomas Paul]

No. The parameters are on the server and the applet is on the client. You would need to have a cgi program build the applet html page passing the parameters in as part of the applet tag.

[Corey McGlone]

Thanks, Thomas. I was afraid that was going to be the answer I'd get. :roll:

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Or use applet-servlet communication rather than trying to use applet-html communication.

[Eric Pascarello]

JavaScript talking to the parameter
look at this info:
if you do not know:
with JavaScript you can get the location by
var TheLoc = document.location.href;
To talk you can use this:
https://coderanch.com/t/113648/HTML-JavaScript/set-applet-ID-your-html
See if that helps
Eric

[Carl Trusiak]

Or, use JavaScript to set those values into Cookies on Page 1, then when Page 2 is loading, read the values off the cookies and pass them into the applet. You use JSObject for the communications between the Applet and JavaScript. Info on Cookies from JavaScript. http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/property.html
Of course this is simple if you are using JSPs or Servlets

[Maulin Vasavada]

hi all,
if i were there, i would try following,
1. embed the applet tag in the JSP instead the HTML and then in the JSP i would retrieve ALL the query string parameters via request.getParameterNames() and then iterating the Enumeration to get values.
2. then build the PARAM tags with those parameter names and values in JSP.
e.g.
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String paramName= null;
while ( enum.hasMoreElements() ) {
paramName = (String)enum.nextElement();
sb.append("<PARAM NAME='"+paramName+"' VALUE='"+request.getParameter(paramName)+"'>");
}
3. retrieve these parameters in the applet.
here, in the applet we don't have getParameters() or getParameterNames() or something like that which will get ALL the parameters. we have to do it one by one and "know" the names of each parameter, which might be a problem , right?
regards
maulin

[Maulin Vasavada]

sorry,
i forgot to mention that after the 2nd step,
we would have to do sb.toString() to embed the PARAM tags in the APPLET tag like,
<applet ...>
<%=sb.toString()%>
</applet>

[Nicholas Turner]

and actually if you numbered them numerically you could just do a loop till the result is null and that solves the last problem.
now he can routinely hack web sites