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  1. what does '?' mean in the following statement (6 messages)

    href="BookDetail.jsp?item_id=<%=java.net.URLEncoder.encode(result.getString(1))%>"

    And please also give me a hand in these question .

    1.Is '?' the default ways to pass the params along with a link to another jsp ?
    2.The params is named at the time we write that code or it is named before ? And how ?
    3. How the BookDetail.jsp receive the params to look it up in the database and show all the details of that book name out ?

    It would be very nice of you if you could give me some advices !
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  2. what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    The ? and & are the standard ways of passing parameters in HTTP.

    i.e.

    www.theurl.com?param1=value1&param2=value2

    You can collect the parameters up within a servlet with something like

    HttpRequest.getParameterValue("param1");

    Ian Purton
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  3. RE: what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    Ian is correct, and you should know that the questions you have asked are incredibly basic. Any half-way decent beginners book would have the answer.
    If you don't know this, you're going to be writing code that is going to just plain suck.
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  4. RE: what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    Hilariously, I worked with someone on a project who didn't know this most basic stuff.

    In a typical JSP of his, he got the url as a string and manually parsed it to extract the parameters. And he assumed the order of the parameters was fixed! I've never seen anything like it!
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  5. what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    ? saperates URL and list of parameters. where as & saperates each parameter.
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  6. what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    BTW, This is an example of HTTP GET method. Post shouldn't have this type of list.
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  7. what does '?' mean in the following statement[ Go to top ]

    Take a look at the following URL to understand HTTP URL submission:

    http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/methods.html
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