What is net.class?

["Smith, Steven M" <St...@usa.xerox.com>]

Does anyone know why Apache/TomCat is looking for java/net.class?

I am running Apache 1.3.14 with TomCat 3.2.1 after upgrading from 3.1 on
Windows NT 4.0, SP 4 under JDK1.2.2_005. After upgrading, the following
messages appeared in Apache's error.log:

[Mon Dec 18 13:36:18 2000] [error] [client <my IP address>] File does not
exist:
d:/sms/junk/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1/webapps/xerox/html/jba
sim/java/net.class

and this message in access.log:

<my IP address> - - [12/Dec/2000:13:30:57 -0500] "GET
/Xerox/HTML/JBAsim/java/net.class HTTP/1.0" 404 308

I have no references to a class named "net" in my source code. Any ideas why
this class is being referenced?

Thanks in advance for your help.


- Steve  

Re: What is net.class?

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

"Smith, Steven M" wrote:

> Does anyone know why Apache/TomCat is looking for java/net.class?
>

They are looking for this class because some client asked for it.  That's why it
shows up in the access log.

My guess would be it's an applet, but without knowing anything about the client
that issued this request, there is no way to be sure.

Another possibility is that you have a file like Net.class (note the case
difference) -- in Tomcat 3.1 (before the 3.1.1 update), filename matches were
not case senstive.  They are in 3.1.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1.

Craig McClanahan