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Foil 17 HTTPServlet

From Overview of JDBC: Java Database Connectivity Java Servlets -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken


1 This subclass of GenericServlet provides automatic separation of requests according to the HTTP type of request:
  • GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, CONNECT, OPTIONS
2 The service method of HTTPLservlet checks the type of request and calls one of several special methods if they are present:
  • doGet, doHead, doDelete, doOptions, doPost, doTrace
  • Note that if you supply a doGet method, the service method can use if for doHead, doTrace and doOptions as well by extracting header information.
3 doGet and doPost methods should read request data, set response headers and write response data.

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