package hall; import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.net.*; /** Servlet that takes a search string, number of results per * page, and a search engine name, sending the query to * that search engine. Illustrates manipulating * the response status line. It sends a 302 response * (via sendRedirect) if it gets a known search engine, * and sends a 404 response (via sendError) otherwise. *
* Part of tutorial on servlets and JSP that appears at
* http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/
* 1999 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
*/
public class SearchEngines extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
// The URLEncoder changes spaces to "+" signs and other
// non-alphanumeric characters to "%XY", where XY is the
// hex value of the ASCII (or ISO Latin-1) character.
// The getParameter method decodes automatically, but since
// we're just passing this on to another server, we need to
// re-encode it.
String searchString =
URLEncoder.encode(request.getParameter("searchString"));
String numResults =
request.getParameter("numResults");
String searchEngine =
request.getParameter("searchEngine");
SearchSpec[] commonSpecs = SearchSpec.getCommonSpecs();
for(int i=0; i