The Request Handling Methods
These are where you put the code that handles HTTP requests to URL of the servlet.
The available request-handling methods are
doGet() Handle HTTP GET request.
doPost() Handle HTTP POST request.
doPut() Handle HTTP PUT request.
doDelete() Handle HTTP DELETE request.
doOptions() Handle HTTP OPTIONS request.
doTrace() Handle HTTP TRACE request.
- Note there is no doHead().
These have generic signature:
protected void doXxx(HttpServletRequest req,
HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {. . .}