CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaservlets
user46688
user46688

Reputation: 753

Java servlet: do parameters sent with doGet() get encoded using HTTPS?

If I have a java servlet using doGet() such as:

public class MyServlet extends HttpServlet {
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
...
param1 = request.getParameter("param1");
...

and it gets accessed by calling https://www.mydomain.com/MyServlet?param1=hello.

Is param1 secure since I'm using https (that is, param1 is not visible to anyone but the user accessing the link)? Or, is it visible because doGet() places param1 in the HTML header? If the latter, what's equivalent doPost() look like here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 207

Answers (1)

developerwjk
developerwjk

Reputation: 8659

If the link originates in the https site, then its fine.

If the link does not originate in the https site, its not. Like if you literally put that link on another site, or same site using http. So if you had http://www.example.com/ and it linked to https://www.example.com/MyServlet?param1=hello then it wouldn't actually be secure because you printed out the link over plain text.

Upvotes: 2

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