Thank you much Roland for the prompt reply. Well, I think the server side should be ok since before this switch to commons-httpclient I had no problem with the URL -> HttpURLConnection.openConnection() -> conn.getOutputStream() route. And funny you should mention logging because it was what I feared most to touch on as I've been wondering in the context of an applet where the logs should go and how do I dictate that, so I simply left it and hoped for the best. But I will try to make use of logs and see if I can spot anything.
As for the code itself, it's actually quite simple but it maybe useful for you folks to see (well, it comes after this paragraph). Now my million dollar question is this, does one have to do any tricky things to get httpclient working with https URLs in an applet? HttpClient httpClnt = new HttpClient(); httpClnt.getParams().setParameter( "http.socket.timeout", new Integer( 60000 ) ); PostMethod poster = new PostMethod( Constants.APP_HOME_URL_PFX + "/myPlainTextInputAndAnswering.jsp" ); RequestEntity rqst = new StringRequestEntity( lotInfoRqstLn, "text/plain", "iso-8859-1" ); poster.setRequestEntity( rqst ); BufferedReader srvlRsp = null; int respCode = 0; try { respCode = httpClnt.executeMethod( poster ); if (respCode == 200) { srvlRsp = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( poster.getResponseBodyAsStream() ) ); } } catch (IOException ioe) { // the error I quoted was caught here } -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/httpclient-dev@jakarta.apache.org/4579759.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]