Re: Applet Hangs when submitting data to servlet
ILPTAB wrote:
Update:
Well I finally got around to trying Nigel's suggestion of calling the
flush() method after the ObjectOutputStream is opened. Unfortunately
this did not resolve the problem.
Can anybody think of a reason why this problem would occur on some
computers and not on others? I know that Roedy suggested that there
may be an issue with the version of a class that has been cached into
the windows browser but the code I posted above was compiled and
published to our web server exactly one time. How could there be a
version conflict with that? That being said I will start adding the
version info to code just in case.
I just find it so darn perplexing that the site works for some people
and not for others.
Is there anything in common with the clients which fail? Windows patch level,
JRE version, browser etc. I'd go with Roedy's suggestion and use Wireshark to
look at the packets on the wire to see what's being sent between the applet and
the server.
Could this be a FIREWALL issue?
I doubt it, unless it's a badly broken firewall. I don't see how a properly
functioning firewall could result in that scenario.
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