package coreservlets; import java.io.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import java.net.*; /** A variation of the SearchEngine servlet that uses * cookies to remember users choices. These values * are then used by the SearchEngineFrontEnd servlet * to initialize the form-based front end. *
* Taken from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages
* from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
* http://www.coreservlets.com/.
* © 2000 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
*/
public class CustomizedSearchEngines extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String searchString = request.getParameter("searchString");
if ((searchString == null) ||
(searchString.length() == 0)) {
reportProblem(response, "Missing search string.");
return;
}
Cookie searchStringCookie =
new LongLivedCookie("searchString", searchString);
response.addCookie(searchStringCookie);
// 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.
// Browsers always URL-encode form values, so the
// getParameter method decodes automatically. But since
// we're just passing this on to another server, we need to
// re-encode it.
searchString = URLEncoder.encode(searchString);
String numResults = request.getParameter("numResults");
if ((numResults == null) ||
(numResults.equals("0")) ||
(numResults.length() == 0)) {
numResults = "10";
}
Cookie numResultsCookie =
new LongLivedCookie("numResults", numResults);
response.addCookie(numResultsCookie);
String searchEngine = request.getParameter("searchEngine");
if (searchEngine == null) {
reportProblem(response, "Missing search engine name.");
return;
}
Cookie searchEngineCookie =
new LongLivedCookie("searchEngine", searchEngine);
response.addCookie(searchEngineCookie);
SearchSpec[] commonSpecs = SearchSpec.getCommonSpecs();
for(int i=0; i