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Chapter 1: An Overview of Servlet and JSP Technology
Chapter 2: Server Setup and Configuration
Chapter 3: Servlet Basics
Chapter 4: Handling the Client Request: Form Data
Chapter 5: Handling the Client Request: HTTP Request Headers
Chapter 6: Generating the Server Response: HTTP Status Codes
Chapter 7: Generating the Server Response: HTTP Response Headers
Chapter 8: Handling Cookies
Chapter 9: Session Tracking
Chapter 10: Overview of JSP Technology
Chapter 11: Invoking Java Code with JSP Scripting Elements
Chapter 12: Controlling the Structure of Generated Servlets: The JSP page Directive
Chapter 13: Including Files and Applets in JSP Pages
Chapter 14: Using JavaBeans Components in JSP Documents
Chapter 15: Integrating Servlets and JSP: The Model View Controller (MVC) Architecture
Chapter 16: Simplifying Access to Java Code: The JSP 2.0 Expression Language
Chapter 17: Accessing Databases with JDBC
Chapter 18: Configuring MS Access, MySQL, and Oracle9i
Chapter 19: Creating and Processing HTML Forms
Appendix

Source Code Archive

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Second Edition

Volume 1: Core Technologies

Chapter 5: Handling the Client Request: HTTP Request Headers

Complete source code for every example from this chapter, available free for unrestricted use. Live links to all URLs cited in the chapter. More information. To view source code for other chapters in this book, mouse over the table of contents bar on the left.

Source Code from Chapter

Note: right-click or shift-click on the links to download the associated file.

• ShowRequestHeaders.java. Debugging/testing servlet that shows all headers coming in on current request.
• LongServlet.java. Servlet that generates long and simple output. Sends output gzipped to clients that indicate (with Accept-Encoding header) that they support it. Uses the GzipUtilities class.
• GzipUtilities.java. Utility class used by the LongServlet.
• BrowserInsult.java. Servlet that gives browser-specific insults.
• CustomizeImage.java. Servlet that displays referer-specific images.
• JRun-Referer.html. HTML page with link to CustomizeImage servlet.
• Resin-Referer.html. HTML page with link to CustomizeImage servlet.
• Tomcat-Referer.html. HTML page with link to CustomizeImage servlet.
• ShowCGIVariables.java. Servlet that creates a table showing the value of each of the standard CGI variables.

URLs Referenced in Chapter

• RFC Editor. Resource for finding online RFCs (internet-related specifications).

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