Clustered Servers and Applet (Very URGENT Please)

Question

Hi,
I'm using win2k/CF application server 4.5/IPlanet web server/NN4.79/JRE1.4.1/.
I have an applet in one of my web page which downloads a file from the web server(stored in http://www.abc.net/doc/zip directory on the server).
Now when I run this code on the development server, everything works fine.
But in production environment, we have 3 clustered web servers controlled by a controller (Local Cisco Director) machine. The applet code looks like this:-
strURL = "http://www.abc.net/doc/Zip/"; //the URL from which the zip is to be downloaded. Basically it hits the Controller first
     strZipFileName=getParameter("zipFileName");
     strURL = strURL+strZipFileName;
          //Get Connection to Server and Download the file
          try{
          objUrl = new URL(strURL);
          httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) objUrl.openConnection();
               //DownLoad the File
               InputStream fileInputStrm = httpCon.getInputStream();
               // create a file object which will contain the directory structure to copy in the local machine
               localZipFile = new File(strLocalFilePath+strZipFileName);
               FileOutputStream fileOutStrm = new FileOutputStream(localZipFile);
               int ch;
          while ((ch = fileInputStrm.read()) != -1) {
                    fileOutStrm.write(ch);
               // Close the InputStream, HTTP connection , File stream
          fileInputStrm.close();
          httpCon.disconnect();
          fileOutStrm.close();
Now when the home page of the site is loaded it makes the connection and controller redirects this request to one of the web servers (say 1) which is least loaded.
Now when the applet is loaded, the new connection is established to the controller and it may redirect the request to any one of the 3 web servers (not necessarily to 1 which is required). Now sometimes it hits the right web server on which the required zip file is stored, and sometimes it doesn't hit the correct server.
Any clue what we can do in this scenario so that the applet downloads the correct file from the right server?
Please help it is very urgent....
Thanks

Answer 1

Did you ever get a response to this or figure out how to run in a clustered environment? I am now running into the same issue and would be interested in whatever you learned.