Hi,
Have You tried like this:
<form action = "http://localhost:8080/servlet/MyServlet" method = "post">
Check in the servlet source to be doPost (not misspelled accidentally??).
Berst wishes,
Andras
----- Original Message -----
From: TaNiA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: parsing information from a form
> I 've already tried using the absolute path and I still get the same error
> message.
>
> I'm using jsdk2.1, jswdk1.0 and jdk2.
>
> cheers,
> tania
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Spencer Ridder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: parsing information from a form
>
>
> Hi TaNiA,
>
> I believe that you problem is that the post method is using the default
> port 80 and not the port you are using ( 8080 ). I believe the that
> browsers do not preserve the port number as part of the base URL.
>
> My suggestion:
>
> Change the relative URL in the action section of your post statement
> to a absolute URL, including port number.
>
> OR
>
> you could set up your server to work on port 80.
>
> Good Luck,
> Spencer
>
>
>
>
>
>
> TaNiA wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a form which is generated (by the doGet() method) in
MyServlet.java
> > when the following URL is called:
> > http://localhost:8080/servlet/MyServlet?group=A
> >
> > When the user submits the form, the doPost() method in MyServlet is
> invoked
> > and the user's data is parsed by the doPost() method.
> > <form action = "/servlet/MyServlet" method = "post">
> >
> > The problem I am facing is when I click on the submit button, I get the
> > error:
> >
> > Http 405- Resource not found, page cannot be displayed.
> >
> > somehow, the doPost() method is not called at all! I've put simple
> > out.println statements in the doPost method and it seems like doPost()
is
> > not used at all!
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Is it because MyServlet was called with the parameter ?group=A and upon
> > submission of the form, there is no "group" parameter that's passed to
> > MyServlet's doPost() method?
> >
> > Thanks heaps in advance,
> > tania
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