# in url parameter

No, I don't believe there is anyway that you can tell it to ignore the # in the request string.

The # is defined in the http url address as having a special meaning.

You cannot override it.

The code calling your JSP/servlet is faulty for not escaping the # sign.

There is nothing you can do at the response end.

caveat: you MAY be able to do this in a servlet by reading the input stream directly, I am not sure. As the section after the # is not even required by the server, I am not certain if it would be transmitted or not.

Ok, I think I am understanding now.

Another program is making a request with this URL.

You don't have control over the request code, just the code reading the request.

Just to make sure

- how is this url being generated?

- how is the url being invoked? Someone clicking on a web page, or is a program doing it?

If you could explain things a bit like that - ie what programs/servers are involved, and how they are being generated/invoked then we might be able to help.

evnafetsa at 2007-7-16 13:24:32 >

Hi nemaria,

What do you mean the # is being generated by another program?

I would have a way how you could play a small trick on your pc, but I am afraid it would not be the most original.

basically instead of ivoking "iexplore.exe http://.../one.jsp?parameter1="

you will save a file on your the client drive. You then create a simple page and always load this page ... "iexplorer.exe mypage.html"

Here you use some javascript to load the file data. The following could do it I think

// Where layer is some elemtn on the screen.

document.layers[id].load(url,width);

And then you can change this character # with something else, still using javascript if you want. As I said not the best solution... it is still morning over here!! and so if anyone thinks this is bullsh*t, please say it so the OP does not have false hopes it could work!

regards,

sim085

sim085a at 2007-7-16 13:24:32 >

Couple of things that are very clear -

1. You have to encode this request before sending it to the server. There's no way you can send # in the url and expect it to be delivered intact. evnafets had posted that the replacement ought to be '%23'.

2. your jsp is at the receiving end of this request - you cannot do any encoding here.

The way to do it would be to invoke the url in this fashion

http://....../something.jsp?param1=aaa%23bbb

And then in the jsp,

request.getParameter("param1")

would return aaa#bbb on the server side.

>how is this url being generated?-

>I generate it myself. Only the parameter (including #) is passed by another program.

and later

>It must run from the command line. Something like

When you say you generate it yourself, do you have a program that generates this url ? In which case you will have to parse the parameter passed by the other program and replace # with %23.

ram.

Madathil_Prasada at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >

>The program that is written not by me goes to this table, takes this >value and appends the argument to it. The argument is taken from the >user interface on the client side and includes #.

As far as I know, there's no other way except to go into the client program (is it java?) and have an encoder running there that properly escapes it (because tomorrow the argument may contain some other similar special character) before submitting the request.

ram.

Madathil_Prasada at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >

Nemaria,

Ok, now things are slowly making a little more sense... Given your description, it would appear that your best solution would be to install a small Java app on all your client machines that parse and execute the String passed by this blackbox. Try something like this:

import java.net.URLEncode;

class myapp()

{

public static void main( String args[] )

{

String enc = URLEncoder.encode(args[0]);

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("'iexplore.exe http://.../one.jsp?parameter1="+enc);

}

}

And in your DB: PROCEDURE_NAME = "java myapp "

HTH.

munyula at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >

Hi, bsampieri!

Would you please give me an example how to take the full URL

'http://zlt02/MMFromCadops/l.jsp?n=aaa#bbb'?

Because, when I write in my one.jsp file

request.getRequestURL(),

it returns

'http://zlt02/MMFromCadops/l.jsp'

and when I write

request.getParameter("a") ,

it returns

'aaa'-

it's cut after #.

nemariaa at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >

at what point are you talking about...

technically, if you are getting the value from the request object, then it's too late to do conversion. Conversion should be done on the URL before it's used in a web server request.

that being said, request.getQueryString() should return the raw query string.

bsampieria at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >

Yes... I know that. Which is why I said before that if you are doing this thru the request object in a servlet/jsp page, it is TOO LATE. You need to take care of those things BEFORE you submit a request.

If you're getting that request URL string only from the servlet side, then the caller of that servlet needs to create the URL it uses to call the servlet properly first.

At the point you are talking about in your last few post examples, there is NOTHING you can do.

bsampieria at 2007-7-20 18:54:27 >