Re: filter

From:
 GArlington <garlington@tiscali.co.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:13:07 -0700
Message-ID:
<1188472387.742086.281310@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On 30 Aug, 08:39, odelya <be.spec...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!
I wrote the ffollowing filter:
private FilterConfig filterConfig = null;

        /**
         * overwritten.
         */
        public void destroy() {
                filterConfig = null;

        }

        /**
         * filters parameters: ContentType and expires.
         */
        public void doFilter(ServletRequest arg0, ServletResponse arg1,
FilterChain arg2) throws IOException, ServletException {
                if (filterConfig == null)
                        return;
                HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) arg0;
                HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) arg1;
                System.out.print(request.getContextPath());
                System.out.print(request.getContentLength());

                arg2.doFilter(request, response);
        }

        /* (non-Javadoc)
         * @see javax.servlet.Filter#init(javax.servlet.FilterConfig)
         */
        public void init(FilterConfig arg0) throws ServletException {
                this.filterConfig = arg0;

        }
and i get messege:
for ContextPath(): /servlet
for ContentLength(): -1.
How come I don't get any content?

Thank you


ContentLength() = -1 is not empty, it is unknown.
See http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#getContentLength()

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