[thelist] JSP fumbling.....

David Bindel dbindel at austin.rr.com
Sat Nov 16 21:02:01 CST 2002


I have never used Java Server Pages before, but like C++, I believe that
Java lacks built-in string comparing operators.  For example, in C++, you
must use strcmp() to compare strings.  Perhaps Java has something similar,
but since I am not very familiar with it...



HTH,

David Bindel

> -----Original Message-----
> Why does this *always* evaluate to false??
>
>    String HTTPMethod = request.getMethod();
>    if (HTTPMethod == "POST") {
>       System.out.println("True");
>    } else {
>       System.out.println("False");
>    }
>
> Yet
>
>       System.out.println(HTTPMethod);
>
> On a form submit prints POST.
>
> I'm stumped.
> ---
> Anthony Baratta




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