How do you pass a parameter from one jsp page to another?

[samvonac]

Hi,

I have two jsp pages and I want to pass parameters from one to another. I was using response.sendRedirect("myjsp.jsp?Parameters&quot and this works fine. However... if the length of the parameter is very long (ie, thousands of characters) this method does not work. Is there another way of passing parameters that can handle large sizes of data?

Thanks.
-td

 

[wushutwist]

Use POST requests instead of querystring (GET requests). This requires you to create an HTML form and submit it to a page.
Example HTML form:

<form method=&quot;POST&quot; action=&quot;/mypage.jsp&quot;>
  <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;id&quot; value=&quot;34&quot;>
  <input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;user&quot;>
  <input type=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

This will create a simple HTML form that will submit the parameters id and name to the specified jsp page. You will access these parameters in exactly the same way as you do currently with GET requests. Wushutwist