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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 393

How to hide passed request parameters from the user?

In my jsp page I have a link:

<a href="adminView.do?profile=all">Clear</a>

If I click the link in the browser address bar I can see:

 adminView.do?profile=all

instead of 

adminView.do

How to hide passed request parameters from the user?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2600

Answers (2)

Shaggy
Shaggy

Reputation: 1464

In order hide the parameters you must use a form and post the data. You can't just use an <a> tag. You can still pull off the look you are going for with a form. Just put the form tags around your anchor tag:

<form id="postRequest" action="adminView.do" method="post" target="_blank">
    <input type="hidden" name="profile" value="all"/>
    <a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('postRequest').submit()">Clear</a>
</form>

Here is a helpful link about sending and retrieving form data.

And here is a JSFiddle to show what the URL looks like when submitting a form using post vs get.

Upvotes: 1

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 317

If you want to hide parameters from users, you will have to use post request. In your href call a method to generate post request and then send it.

Upvotes: 1

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