Thanks so much Kevin everything worked out great. Silly me I had a doPost in my servlet instead of a doGet - that was the only problem. For some reason I thought you could get away with just a "doPost". Anyway, you're a great resource, who knows you could be the next Bill Gates, ha. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Mukhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IOException Assuming http://wthompson:8080/servlet/Servlet05 is a valid servlet url (To check that http://wthompson:8080/servlet/Servlet05 is a valid servlet url, just enter that url into a browser. If the url is valid, the browser will get the response and display it.) And assuming servlet Servlet05 implements doGet And assuming doGet does not need any parameters from the request Then the code you need can be found at the Java Tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/urls/readingWriting.html Here is the basic code from the tutorial: URL dataURL = new URL("http://wthompson:8080/servlet/Servlet05"); URLConnection connection = dataURL.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream())); String line = null; while((line = in.readLine()) != null) { t.append(line).append("\n"); } Willard Thompson wrote: > > Hello - > > I get an error while trying to have my applet talk to my servlet. When ever > I run the simple code below: > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////////// > > public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) > { > try > { > URL dataURL = new > URL("http://wthompson:8080/servlet/Servlet05"); > URLConnection connection = dataURL.openConnection(); > > connection.setUseCaches(false); > connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "10"); > > BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new > InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream())); > > String line; > > while((line = in.readLine()) != null) > { > t.append(line + "\n"); > } > } > catch (IOException ioe) > { > t.append("IOException: " + ioe); > } > } > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /////////////// > > I get the following error: "IOException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: > wthompson:8080//servlet/Servlet05". I've tried a great many directories. As > well. There must be something else. Appreciate any help. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
