A Simple 405 error

Question

I am getting a 405 error in the web browser and in my client MIDlet whenever it performs a post operation and the servlet tries to grab via the code shown below.
I am not doing anything fancy just want to get a string as a parameter in the servlet and print it out that is all I have to do to get the MIDlet to receive it.
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PostServlet extends HttpServlet {
  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
      HttpServletResponse response)
      throws ServletException, IOException {
    String name = request.getParameter("name = ");
    String message = "Received name: " + name + "'";
    response.setContentType("text/plain");
    response.setContentLength(message.length());
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
    out.println(message);
}I am using tomcat 4.1 on jdk 1.4.1 I am not sure why I get this error. The url pattern used in the clients is:
http://localhost:8080/myapp/servlet/PostServlet
If anyone explain what has happened I would be greatful.
Prash

Answer 1

I find that if I put it in my root folder then the application runs. So this must be some sort of security error. I was wondering how would i write a web.xml for this application
e.g. folder name = test
servlet name = servletTest
I have seen many tutorials on how to write the web.xml for your own application (without using the root context) but none of them work so far. I know I have to also set the security allowance to make this applicaiton able to execute post and ger in the web.xml. This is what caused my problems earlier as I just copy , pasted the root folder and called it 'test'. I know this was bad practice on my behalf but I just wanted to get it to work real fast.