Applet to servlet connection failed using plugin 1.3

Question

Hi,
I tried to send a serialized object from an Applet to a Servlet. It worked well until I installed the Java plugin version 1.3.
Now I can open the Connection, create an ObjectOutputStream and write the object but nothing happens then. The Servlet doesn't start working.
I don't receive an exception or error message, neither in Tomcat or Apache log-file nor in the plug-in console.
here is my code example:
String location = " http://localhost/com/spes/test/TestUploadSoundServlet";
URL servlet = new URL( location );
URLConnection servletConnection = servlet.openConnection();
// inform the connection that we will send output and accept input
servletConnection.setDoInput(true);
servletConnection.setDoOutput(true);
// Don't use a cached version of URLconnection.
servletConnection.setUseCaches (false);
servletConnection.setDefaultUseCaches (false);
// Specify the content type that we will send binary data
servletConnection.setRequestProperty ("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(servletConnection.getOutputStream());
out.writeObject(soundClass);
out.flush();
out.close();
Is there anything wrong in the code above?
thanks for help...
mfg maze

Answer 1

since the Apache server is listening on port 80 I thought it is not necessary to use the port number. I tried now with the new URL:
String location = " http://localhost:80/com/spes/test/TestUploadSoundServlet";but it still doesn't work.
thanks for your help