PHP Redirection with Post Parameters

You CAN header redirect a POST request, and include the POST information. However, you need to explicitly return HTTP status code 307. Browsers treat 302 as a redirect with for GET, ignoring the original method. This is noted explicitly in the HTTP documentation: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.8 Practically, this means in PHP you need to set the status … Read more

In C#, what happens when you call an extension method on a null object?

That will work fine (no exception). Extension methods don’t use virtual calls (i.e. it uses the “call” il instruction, not “callvirt”) so there is no null check unless you write it yourself in the extension method. This is actually useful in a few cases: public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string value) { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(value); } public … Read more

parameters in MySQLi

Oddly enough, the title to your question is basically the answer to it. You want to do something like this, using mysqli parameterized queries: $db = new mysqli(<database connection info here>); $name = “michael”; $age = 20; $stmt = $db->prepare(“SELECT $fields FROm $table WHERE name = ? AND age = ?”); $stmt->bind_param(“si”, $name, $age); $stmt->execute(); … Read more

Value passed with request.setAttribute() is not available by request.getParameter()

You’re calling request.getParameter() instead of request.getAttribute() to obtain the value. Since you’ve set it as request attribute, you should also get it as request attribute. So: request.setAttribute(“foo”, foo); is only available by Object foo = request.getAttribute(“foo”); // NOT getParameter(). The getParameter() is only for HTTP request parameters as you can specify in request URL or … Read more

Parameters generic of overloaded function doesn’t contain all options

In the answers to the question this duplicates the limitation mentioned in @ford04’s answer here, that infer only looks at the last overloaded signature, is acknowledged. But this answer shows it’s not completely impossible; you can tease out some information about overloads, at least for functions with up to some arbitrary fixed number of them. … Read more