Re: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[Corey A. Johnson]

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RE: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[Rajah Kalipatnapu]

>From my experience you might be facing this problem with Netscape browser.
If you try the same with explorer you may not face this problem.

This is only one possibility I know. There may be some other reasons which
I cannot guess.

Ok, lets c if you can access your page through IE( thought IE says that
there are errors in page)
and not through Netscape, that means in the result page you have a wrong
path to your javascript file.

Its always possible when you use a relative path in your servlet or jsp
output page
and use servlet to get that page.

I would rather use
<%=request.getContextPath()%>/javascriptDirectory/myjsfile.js

instead of some thing like   ../../javascriptDirectory/myjsfile.js

hope this helps,
Raj

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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:55 AM
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Subject: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?


I have a page (JSP) which contains a form with a servlet as the action
of the form.  However whenever I submit the form I am getting a Not
Found 404 error telling me that a Javascript file which is used for
Javascript on the page is not found.  I am perplexed as to why this is
happening, especially since the Javascript is working as it should.  I
should instead be forwarded to the servlet which will handle the form
parameters.  Can anyone suggest ways to find out what is going wrong
?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

-James


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Re: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[D. Jay Newman]

> I wasn't saying JavaScript was bad or should be gotten rid of - I was
> suggesting dumping all of the JavaScript as a first step to figuring out
> where the problem is (division of one large problem into areas to limit the
> amount of code to be examined).

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RE: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[Randy Layman]

> -Original Message-
> From: D. Jay Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my 
> servlet ?
> 
> 
> > First suggestion: Eliminate the JavaScript.  Our 
> developers (myself
> > included) have had plenty of problems with variables named 
> action resetting
> > the URL that the form posts to.
> 
> JavaScript itself isn't too bad. It's very useful to add 
> interaction to
> a page.
> 

I wasn't saying JavaScript was bad or should be gotten rid of - I was
suggesting dumping all of the JavaScript as a first step to figuring out
where the problem is (division of one large problem into areas to limit the
amount of code to be examined).


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Re: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[D. Jay Newman]

>   First suggestion: Eliminate the JavaScript.  Our developers (myself
> included) have had plenty of problems with variables named action resetting
> the URL that the form posts to.

JavaScript itself isn't too bad. It's very useful to add interaction to
a page.

Just don't try having a JavaScript variable named "item" when using Internet
Explorer.
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RE: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[Randy Layman]

First suggestion: Eliminate the JavaScript.  Our developers (myself
included) have had plenty of problems with variables named action resetting
the URL that the form posts to.

Also, try posting to different things - a non-existent HTML file to
start with and check what URL is requested.  This should help you track down
whether its client side or server side that is messing things up.

Randy


> -Original Message-
> From: James Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?
> 
> 
> I have a page (JSP) which contains a form with a servlet as the action
> of the form.  However whenever I submit the form I am getting a Not
> Found 404 error telling me that a Javascript file which is used for
> Javascript on the page is not found.  I am perplexed as to why this is
> happening, especially since the Javascript is working as it should.  I
> should instead be forwarded to the servlet which will handle the form
> parameters.  Can anyone suggest ways to find out what is going wrong
> ?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions...
> 
> -James
> 
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Why am I getting a Javascript file instead of my servlet ?

[James Adams]

I have a page (JSP) which contains a form with a servlet as the action
of the form.  However whenever I submit the form I am getting a Not
Found 404 error telling me that a Javascript file which is used for
Javascript on the page is not found.  I am perplexed as to why this is
happening, especially since the Javascript is working as it should.  I
should instead be forwarded to the servlet which will handle the form
parameters.  Can anyone suggest ways to find out what is going wrong
?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

-James


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