Tutorials : Server-Side Web Applications Using Servlets and JSP :
Accessing the Standard CGI Variables :

Contents
Introduction to CGI Variables
Servlet Equivalent of Standard CGI Variables
Example: Reading the CGI Variables

Introduction to CGI Variables

If you come to Java servlets from traditional CGI, you are probably used to the idea of "CGI Variables". These are a somewhat eclectic collection of information about the request. Some are derived from the HTTP request line and headers (e.g. the part of the URI that came after the question mark and typically contains the form data, or the Content-Length header), some are derived from the socket itself (e.g. the name and IP address of the requesting host), and some are derived from server installation parameters (e.g. the mapping of URLs to actual paths).

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Server-Side Web Applications using Java Servlets versions 2.1/2.2 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) version 1.0: A Tutorial
© 1999-2000 Marty Hall.
All source code freely available for unrestricted use.
Created for work in the Research and Technology Development Center of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, for courses in the Johns Hopkins Part-Time MS Program in Computer Science, and for various industry seminars and on-site Java short courses.
Please note that this is a first draft of the tutorial, so please send corrections, comments, and suggestions to me at hall@apl.jhu.edu.
Reprinted with permission from the author. Click here to visit the original version

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