Dear Steve,

Have you been able to resolve this? Its killing me! :)

I too am haveing a problem with doPost(). It seems the applet is
sending a request to the servlet/server but I get an EOFException when
attempting to read the response from the server/servlet. The buffer is
empty because the doPost() is not (being called?) or (not responding)?

I really need this to work. If you've resolved this can you provide some
pointers/sample code?

Would really appreciate your help!

Nathan

When I first looked at your code, I thought "That is exactly what I'm doing". Then I noticed that there was one difference. You requested a response from the servlet after you did your post. I had tried doing a Get first then a Post, and it didn't work. Now I tried what you suggested, and did a Post, then a Get from the applet, and then it worked. It seems that the rumour that I read somewhere was right. I'll spell it out clearly for the search engine:

To establish an OutputStream from an Applet to a servlet, you must do a Post, followed by a Get. That is, first write to the input stream of the servlet, then read from the output stream of the servlet.

I read just one dummy byte (after posting my Object) and it worked

Does anyone know why?

Hi,
Here I am putting some code. This code hits the Servlets dopost method. The approach for doget and dopost is little diffrent. Try this.


Thanks
Shiva

String str = http://" + hostName + ":" + port + servletPath
// send the groupHostList to the servlet using serialization
log("Sending the object to the servlet...");

// connect to the servlet
System.out.println("Connecting...");
URL url = new URL( str );
URLConnection servletConnection = url.openConnection();
servletConnection.setDoInput(true);
servletConnection.setDoOutput(true);
servletConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
// Don't use a cached version of URL connection.

servletConnection.setUseCaches(false);
servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);

outputToServlet = new ObjectOutputStream(servletConnection.getOutputStream());
outputToServlet.writeObject(Object);
outputToServlet.flush();
outputToServlet.close();
object = readServletResponse(servletConnection);
log("Send Object is Complete.");

#########END#########

Note: Here the Object is any object you want to send. Just create some object and send it to the servlet and receives the response from the Servlet.