Applet <-> Servlet connectivity

[Jon Evans <ev...@helpmagic.com>]

Hi,

I've got a problem with Tomcat and IIS that I'm hoping someone might have an 
answer to.

My applet opens a socket connection back to the web server, and basically 
sends:
GET /path/to/servlet HTTP/1.0 

in order to invoke the servlet.

It then opens an InputStream and reads the server responses, waits for them 
to finish, and opens an ObjectInputStream from the InputStream.

In the meantime it also opens an ObjectOutputStream on the same socket, in 
order to pass data back to the Servlet.

In my development environment (Linux), talking directly to Tomcat on port 
8080, it works fine.  When I try it on NT, with IIS, again it works fine if I 
ignore IIS and talk directly to Tomcat, but if I go via IIS on port 80 it 
fails.

By putting log messages in the servlet, I can see that it stalls while trying 
to read from the InputStream - it doesn't seem to see the stuff I send from 
the applet.

I'm attaching to IIS with apj12.

Can anyone give me a clue?

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Jon Evans
Senior Developer
http://www.helpmagic.com/