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From: "Kevin Jones" <kevinj@develop.com>
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Subject: RE: applet doesn't connect to servlet with URLConnection
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:39:34 +0100
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Are you sure you're send a GET and not a POST?

Doesn't setDoInput specify POST (I can't remember off the top of my head so
this may be complete rubbish),

Kevin Jones
DevelopMentor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: msaschek@esg-gmbh.de [mailto:msaschek@esg-gmbh.de]
> Sent: 26 May 2000 15:52
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: applet doesn't connect to servlet with URLConnection
>
>
> I'm trying to make a connection from my applet in NS4.73 and IE5
> to a servlet. I
> can call the servlet from the browser by its URL (doGet is
> called, I've put a
> breakpoint) but the request from the applet seems to end up
> nowhere - doGet is
> NOT called. Here's the applet's code:
>
>          URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/etk/control");
>          String strCommand = URLEncoder.encode("rightText") + "=" +
>                              URLEncoder.encode(strInput);
>          URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
>          uc.setDoOutput(true);
>          uc.setDoInput(true);
>          uc.setUseCaches(false);
>          uc.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "text/plain"); //or
> "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"?
>          DataOutputStream dos = new
> DataOutputStream(uc.getOutputStream());
>          dos.writeBytes(strCommand);
>          dos.flush();
>          dos.close();
>
> and here's the web.xml
>
> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
> 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
>
> <web-app>
>
>     <display-name>ETK Test Application</display-name>
>     <description>
>      This is a simple web application to test
>      servlets and java server pages.
>     </description>
>
>     <servlet>
>         <servlet-name>ControlServlet</servlet-name>
>         <servlet-class>etk.ContrServlet</servlet-class>
>     </servlet>
>
>     <servlet-mapping>
>         <servlet-name>ControlServlet</servlet-name>
>         <url-pattern>/control</url-pattern>
>     </servlet-mapping>
>
> </web-app>
>
> thanks for any help
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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