package coreservlets; 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. *
* 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 SearchEngines 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;
}
// 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, "Utf-8");
String numResults = request.getParameter("numResults");
if ((numResults == null) ||
(numResults.equals("0")) ||
(numResults.length() == 0)) {
numResults = "10";
}
String searchEngine =
request.getParameter("searchEngine");
if (searchEngine == null) {
reportProblem(response, "Missing search engine name.");
return;
}
SearchSpec[] commonSpecs = SearchSpec.getCommonSpecs();
for(int i=0; i