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Reverse2Servlet - spaces and quotes

 
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Okay, I've reached my point of frustration so I thought I thought I should see if any of you other "drivers" could help out.
Here's what I have set up for this problem. I am using doGet only. I am utilizing the Str object that I saw reference in another post earlier. It seems that there has been a lot of talk about quotes earlier so I am aware that this may be an issue with the given testing string.
My problem is this, I am only getting the last "word" in the string to show up in the text box. For example if I typed in "show up" in the text box, I would only get up to show upon submission. The funny thing is that in the source I can see both words. This situation exists whether or not there are any quotes in the test string. Anyone have any hints or suggestions as to what the problem may be?
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To get both/all words to show up, the phrase/string you want to work with must be enclosed within quote (either " or ') marks.
 
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Ronald i had exactly the same problem as you and even putting it in quotation marks didn't work, so i forced it to work by taking in the string and replacing the spaces with something else (ill let you figure out what) so that it appeared as one long word to the browser. This seemed to work fine and i was let through with it.
Also from my experience i think you might want to reconsider using doGet() and look at using both instead as doGet() is generally considered unsafe from a security point of view in the wider world and is often discouraged.
Hope i didn't give too much away
Thanks
[ July 15, 2002: Message edited by: Sam Tilley ]
 
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Sam - that did it. Thanks for the pointer. I was actually trying to address two problems at the same time. Thanks.
 
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But, there is a better way, as Sam saw when he received the instructor's solution.
 
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(feeling meek) yes there was a better way which was obvious after seeing the solution, and probably would have been clearer if i hadn't damaged all those brain cells banging my head against the wall trying to find it.
I can't give too much away so i had better escape.. out of here
Cheers
[ July 17, 2002: Message edited by: Sam Tilley ]
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