Using Request Parameters

by Andreas Hartmann

Request parameters are used to send data from the client to a server-side program. In Cocoon, they can be

• forwarded to an external CGI program or servlet,
• used to create other parameters for external servlets,
• used to identify the XML source or the XSLT stylesheets used by Cocoon,
• used to provide input data for XSP pages,
• ...

This tutorial shows some applications of request parameters.