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HttpUtils.javaAPI DocGlassfish v2 API10035Fri May 04 22:34:20 BST 2007javax.servlet.http

HttpUtils

public class HttpUtils extends Object
deprecated
As of Java(tm) Servlet API 2.3. These methods were only useful with the default encoding and have been moved to the request interfaces.

Fields Summary
private static final String
LSTRING_FILE
private static ResourceBundle
lStrings
Constructors Summary
public HttpUtils()
Constructs an empty HttpUtils object.

        
    
    
              

      
Methods Summary
public static java.lang.StringBuffergetRequestURL(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)
Reconstructs the URL the client used to make the request, using information in the HttpServletRequest object. The returned URL contains a protocol, server name, port number, and server path, but it does not include query string parameters.

Because this method returns a StringBuffer, not a string, you can modify the URL easily, for example, to append query parameters.

This method is useful for creating redirect messages and for reporting errors.

param
req a HttpServletRequest object containing the client's request
return
a StringBuffer object containing the reconstructed URL

	StringBuffer url = new StringBuffer ();
	String scheme = req.getScheme ();
	int port = req.getServerPort ();
	String urlPath = req.getRequestURI();
	
	//String		servletPath = req.getServletPath ();
	//String		pathInfo = req.getPathInfo ();

	url.append (scheme);		// http, https
	url.append ("://");
	url.append (req.getServerName ());
	if ((scheme.equals ("http") && port != 80)
		|| (scheme.equals ("https") && port != 443)) {
	    url.append (':");
	    url.append (req.getServerPort ());
	}
	//if (servletPath != null)
	//    url.append (servletPath);
	//if (pathInfo != null)
	//    url.append (pathInfo);
	url.append(urlPath);
	return url;
    
private static java.lang.StringparseName(java.lang.String s, java.lang.StringBuffer sb)

	sb.setLength(0);
	for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
	    char c = s.charAt(i); 
	    switch (c) {
	    case '+":
		sb.append(' ");
		break;
	    case '%":
		try {
		    sb.append((char) Integer.parseInt(s.substring(i+1, i+3), 
						      16));
		    i += 2;
		} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
		    // XXX
		    // need to be more specific about illegal arg
		    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
		} catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
		    String rest  = s.substring(i);
		    sb.append(rest);
		    if (rest.length()==2)
			i++;
		}
		
		break;
	    default:
		sb.append(c);
		break;
	    }
	}
	return sb.toString();
    
public static java.util.HashtableparsePostData(int len, javax.servlet.ServletInputStream in)
Parses data from an HTML form that the client sends to the server using the HTTP POST method and the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME type.

The data sent by the POST method contains key-value pairs. A key can appear more than once in the POST data with different values. However, the key appears only once in the hashtable, with its value being an array of strings containing the multiple values sent by the POST method.

The keys and values in the hashtable are stored in their decoded form, so any + characters are converted to spaces, and characters sent in hexadecimal notation (like %xx) are converted to ASCII characters.

param
len an integer specifying the length, in characters, of the ServletInputStream object that is also passed to this method
param
in the ServletInputStream object that contains the data sent from the client
return
a HashTable object built from the parsed key-value pairs
exception
IllegalArgumentException if the data sent by the POST method is invalid

	// XXX
	// should a length of 0 be an IllegalArgumentException
	
	if (len <=0)
	    return new Hashtable(); // cheap hack to return an empty hash

	if (in == null) {
	    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
	}
	
	//
	// Make sure we read the entire POSTed body.
	//
        byte[] postedBytes = new byte [len];
        try {
            int offset = 0;
       
	    do {
		int inputLen = in.read (postedBytes, offset, len - offset);
		if (inputLen <= 0) {
		    String msg = lStrings.getString("err.io.short_read");
		    throw new IllegalArgumentException (msg);
		}
		offset += inputLen;
	    } while ((len - offset) > 0);

	} catch (IOException e) {
	    throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage());
	}

        // XXX we shouldn't assume that the only kind of POST body
        // is FORM data encoded using ASCII or ISO Latin/1 ... or
        // that the body should always be treated as FORM data.
        //

        try {
            String postedBody = new String(postedBytes, 0, len, "8859_1");
            return parseQueryString(postedBody);
        } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // XXX function should accept an encoding parameter & throw this
            // exception.  Otherwise throw something expected.
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage());
        }
    
public static java.util.HashtableparseQueryString(java.lang.String s)
Parses a query string passed from the client to the server and builds a HashTable object with key-value pairs. The query string should be in the form of a string packaged by the GET or POST method, that is, it should have key-value pairs in the form key=value, with each pair separated from the next by a & character.

A key can appear more than once in the query string with different values. However, the key appears only once in the hashtable, with its value being an array of strings containing the multiple values sent by the query string.

The keys and values in the hashtable are stored in their decoded form, so any + characters are converted to spaces, and characters sent in hexadecimal notation (like %xx) are converted to ASCII characters.

param
s a string containing the query to be parsed
return
a HashTable object built from the parsed key-value pairs
exception
IllegalArgumentException if the query string is invalid


	String valArray[] = null;
	
	if (s == null) {
	    throw new IllegalArgumentException();
	}
	Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
	StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
	StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s, "&");
	while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
	    String pair = (String)st.nextToken();
	    int pos = pair.indexOf('=");
	    if (pos == -1) {
		// XXX
		// should give more detail about the illegal argument
		throw new IllegalArgumentException();
	    }
	    String key = parseName(pair.substring(0, pos), sb);
	    String val = parseName(pair.substring(pos+1, pair.length()), sb);
	    if (ht.containsKey(key)) {
		String oldVals[] = (String []) ht.get(key);
		valArray = new String[oldVals.length + 1];
		for (int i = 0; i < oldVals.length; i++) 
		    valArray[i] = oldVals[i];
		valArray[oldVals.length] = val;
	    } else {
		valArray = new String[1];
		valArray[0] = val;
	    }
	    ht.put(key, valArray);
	}
	return ht;