I think your response.setContentType is wrong if you want to be sending java objects back and forth.
--Monte Glenn Gardner On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Sohaila Roberts wrote: > Hello, I have an applet that sends an object to a servlet via an object > input stream and I get the following error.. > > Ctx(/pr) : IOException in R( /pr + /servlet/pr + null) - > java.io.StreamCorruptedException: Caught EOFException while reading the > stream header > at > java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:840) > at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:163) > at pr.doGet(pr.java:43) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at > org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:574) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:322) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:235) > at > org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:485) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:917) > at > org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833) > at > >org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Http10Interceptor.processConnection(Http10Interceptor.java:176) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494) > at > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:516) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) > > -------------------- > my code is as follows.. > > public boolean sendToServlet() > { > boolean sent = false; > FormData fd = new > FormData(cName,deliver,phone,acct,requested,date,subt, > hst,tot,items); > try { > Serializable objs[] = { fd }; > > URL servlet = new URL(webbase, "pr/servlet/pr"); > in = postObjects(servlet, objs); > Boolean tmp = (Boolean)in.readObject(); > sent = tmp.booleanValue(); > in.close(); > > } catch(Exception e) {} > return sent; > } > > > public ObjectInputStream postObjects(URL servlet, > Serializable objs[]) throws Exception > { > URLConnection con = servlet.openConnection(); > con.setDoInput(true); > con.setDoOutput(true); > con.setUseCaches(false); > con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", > "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); > > // Write the arguments as post data > ObjectOutputStream out = new > ObjectOutputStream(con.getOutputStream()); > int numObjects = objs.length; > for (int x = 0; x < numObjects; x++) { > out.writeObject(objs[x]); > } > > out.flush(); > out.close(); > > return new ObjectInputStream( con.getInputStream() ); > } > > --servlet code chunk-- > > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) > throws ServletException, IOException > { > res.setContentType("text/html"); > ObjectInputStream in = new > ObjectInputStream(req.getInputStream()); > try { > FormData data = (FormData)in.readObject(); > PrintWriter out = res.getWriter(); > report(res.getWriter(), data); > > } catch(Exception e) {} > } > > > ----------------- > In a previous application I used basically the same code but in my servlet > I used the doPost method instead. That application worked fine with no > errors.. When I tried doing this appliation with doPost I would get > GET method not specified errors.. > > The only difference between the 2 applications is that I am now using > tomcat (not servletrunner). > Is there something I'm not doing that I should be? > > Thanks > Sohaila > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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