Html to jsp email post post - null parameters
I have a simple form
form action = "email.jsp" method = "post"
<label for="firstname">Your Name: </label>
input type="text" id="name"<br/>
<label for="email">Your Email: </label>
input type="text" id="address"<br/>
<label for="message">Message: </label>
textarea size="30" rows="4" class="expand" id="comments"</textarea<br/>
input type="submit" value="Send" input type="reset"
/the form
and post to the email.jsp page running in tomcat 5.5, running on another website that I am using which is in flash
this email.jsp appears with null values every time i post data to it - code below
can anyone see what i am doing wrong?
<%@ page import="sun.net.smtp.SmtpClient, java.io.*, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse, javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext" %>
<%
String name = request.getParameter("name");
out.print(name);
String address = request.getParameter("address");
String comments = request.getParameter("comments");
String from="test@there.com.au";
String to="test@where.com";
try{
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("localhost");
client.from(from);
client.to(to);
PrintStream message = client.startMessage();
message.println("From: " + from);
message.println("To: " + to);
message.println();
message.println("Enquiry :-) from " + name + " at " + address);
message.println();
message.println("Details: "+ comments);
client.closeServer();
}
catch (IOException e){
System.out.println("ERROR SENDING EMAIL:"+e);
}
out.print("Email Sent Correctly");
%>
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Your HTML is a little mangled, but it looks like you are not specifying the "name" attribute for your inputs. The "id" attribute is good for referencing your field from the <label>, or for accessing your inputs from Javascript, but the browser won't use it in a POST request.
The solution is simple, add a "name" attribute to your input elements, for example:
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" />
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