Nicholas Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday December
16, 1999 at 10:40am:
>I had a whole applet/servlet architecture set up that
>used a static HTML file served from gthe web server to
>load the applet into the browser.
>
>For a number of reasons (parameters) I substituted the
>static page for a servlet generated page and lo and
>behold, the Java Plugin cannot find the applet's JAR
>file. I was using a CODEBASE of "." in both cases,
>since the JAR file resided in the default HTML
>directory of the web server.
>
>I peer closer at the documentation for applet tags and
>it says:
>
>"By default, a browser looks for an applet's class and
>archive files in the same directory as the HTML file
>that has the <APPLET> tag. "
>
>So I got around the problem by using an absolute URL
>for the CODEBASE ie. http://myserver:80/
>
>My question is, when a page is dynamically generated
>by a servlet, precisely what directory is that page
>considered to have come from ? I tried
>http://myserver/servlet. No dice.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Nicholas
>
Have you tried specifying codebase as "/"? (ie. the html document
root directory).
"/servlet" and "/cgi-bin" are two standard aliases to invoke a
special handler; they aren't directories.
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