Package org.apache.catalina.util

Class RequestUtil

java.lang.Object

org.apache.catalina.util.RequestUtil

public final class RequestUtil
extends Object

General purpose request parsing and encoding utility methods.

Author:

Craig R. McClanahan, Tim Tye

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
RequestUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	filter(String message)	Deprecated. This method will be removed in Tomcat 9
static StringBuffer	getRequestURL(HttpServletRequest request)	Build an appropriate return value for HttpServletRequest.getRequestURL() based on the provided request object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

RequestUtil

public RequestUtil()

Method Details

getRequestURL

public static StringBuffer getRequestURL(HttpServletRequest request)

Build an appropriate return value for HttpServletRequest.getRequestURL() based on the provided request object. Note that this will also work for instances of HttpServletRequestWrapper.

Parameters:

request - The request object for which the URL should be built

Returns:

The request URL for the given request object

filter

@Deprecated
public static String filter(String message)

Deprecated.

This method will be removed in Tomcat 9

Filter the specified message string for characters that are sensitive in HTML. This avoids potential attacks caused by including JavaScript codes in the request URL that is often reported in error messages.

Parameters:

message - The message string to be filtered

Returns:

the filtered message