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Mikey - 25 Jan 2006 16:04 GMT

I am new to servlets and I have a question about viewing the response
source code on my browser. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my
response headers or what.

My servlet creates a response and sends it back to the browser where it
is displayed correctly. However, when I attempt to view the source code
in the browser (both IE and Netscape) the display is blank.

The servlet code is:

res.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = res.getWriter();
out.println("<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 " +
"Transitional//EN\">\n" +
"<HTML>\n" +
"<HEAD><TITLE>Submit Experiment
Results</TITLE></HEAD>\n" +
"<BODY>\n" +
"<br><br><br><br><center>\n" +
"<H2>Experimental Results Recorded</H2>\n" +
"<table border=\"1\" width=\"500\" cellpadding=\"10\"
cellspacing=\"0\"><tr><td>" +

"<H3>Your submitted data have been recorded. You can
either proceed to having your results gradded or click the \"Back\"
button on your browser to again review your data.</H3>\n" +
"</td></tr>" +

"<tr><td>" +
"<H3>After you have clicked the \"Grade Results\"
button, an email with your score will be sent to both you and your
instructor.</H3>\n" +

"</td></tr></table>" +

"</center></BODY></HTML>");

As I develop the servlet code I would like to be able to view the
received html file on the browser for debugging purposes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Joe Attardi - 25 Jan 2006 16:32 GMT

> My servlet creates a response and sends it back to the browser where it
> is displayed correctly. However, when I attempt to view the source code
> in the browser (both IE and Netscape) the display is blank.

Hey Mikey,

Not sure about this problem, but you would be better off using a JSP to
display your results in the browser. It's much easier to read the code,
and is generally just a good practice.

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Mikey - 26 Jan 2006 22:30 GMT

Thanks for the reply Joe. Do you have a reference where I could get
some details on your suggestion.

Thanks again.

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zero - 25 Jan 2006 18:07 GMT

"Mikey" <mike.gunn@comcast.net> wrote in news:1138205075.563497.44970
@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

If the browser displays the page correctly, it means it's receiving the
source code correctly. You should be able to use the browser's "view page
source" or similar to see the html source.

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Oliver Wong - 25 Jan 2006 19:15 GMT

> "Mikey" <mike.gunn@comcast.net> wrote in news:1138205075.563497.44970
> @g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
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> source code correctly. You should be able to use the browser's "view page
> source" or similar to see the html source.

Zero is correct. You may need to scroll around (i.e. horizontally and/or
vertically) to get visible characters (as opposed to whitespace) in the
source viewing window.

- Oliver

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Roedy Green - 25 Jan 2006 19:59 GMT

>If the browser displays the page correctly, it means it's receiving the
>source code correctly. You should be able to use the browser's "view page
>source" or similar to see the html source.

An HTML validator will help you ferret out errors your eye overlooks
in the generated HTML.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/htmlvalidator.html

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Noodles Jefferson - 26 Jan 2006 04:41 GMT

> I am new to servlets and I have a question about viewing the response
> source code on my browser. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my
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>
> Thanks.

You won't see the source code, just the generated code for the page.

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Mikey - 26 Jan 2006 22:21 GMT

I agree. The page displays fine but the received html does not display
completely, or at all, when I view source code.

Thanks for all your comments.

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