HTTP GET method error

Question

I've created a simple web page that contains a text box in which the user enters an URL. And also have a servlet to take this address and do something "useful" with it. The Servlet has a doPost method to get this address, and the web page also has the corresponding method
(<FORM method="POST" ACTION="../fyp/AddressServlet" >).
I'm using a j2ee server, which runs fine, as does the deploytool.
However, when I attempt to open the web page in my browser, I get the following error,
"HTTP Status 405-HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL"
I don't know why I'm getting a GET method error, when it's a POST method I'm using.
Any help would be appreciated,
thanks,
ahhfor

Answer 1

Hi !
You're using the POST method to call the servlet when you submit the HTML page. However, when you try to load your HTML page into the browser, this is done with GET !
Check your server.xml file in the /conf directory and see if your application context is correctly defined. And then check the web.xml file in your application's WEB-INF directory. Finally, check your path to the servlet in your HTML file.