Question

I am looking for some suggestions and tips regarding Servlet/JSP issue I am trying to solve. I need to access a Servlet variable in JSP page which I am passing through the request.setAttribute, then the variable needs to be passed onto another Servlet through doPost. I am able pass that to the page and can display/print, but I would like it to be not displayed, but just passed on to the Submit button.

Here’s my Servlet code:

request.setAttribute("jsession", jsession);

I can do the following and it works, but it’s displaying it on the page and the end-user doesn’t need to see this:

<select name="jsession">
    <c:forEach var="jsession" items="${jsession}">
        <option value="${jsession}">${jsession}</option>
     </c:forEach>
</select>

But, I am looking to do something like this:

String sess = ${jsession}.  

This will be then passed onto the Submit button, maybe I am over-thinking this. Can some veterans point me in the right direction. I appreciate all the effort the veterans take in here. Thank you so much.

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you just need a hidden field instead of your select box:

<input type="hidden" name="jsession" value="<c:out value="${jsession}"/>"/>