URLs cache and applet context showDocument question

Question

Hello:
I wrote an applet and realized that when I try to read from a URL using this code:
URL Url=new URL(ReadAddress);
BufferedReader Input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(Url.openStream()));I was getting cached information from the web browser. So the problem was solved using this:
URL Url=new URL(ReadAddress);
URLConn=Url.openConnection();
URLConn.setUseCaches(false);
URLConn.setDoInput(true);
BufferedReader Input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(URLConn.getInputStream()));However, I wonder what about this?
URL Url=new URL(ReadAddress);
getAppletContext().showDocument(Url);Since in this case I can't tell to the applet context to use a specific URLConnection, I don't know if showDocument(Url) will show always the most updated document or could show also a cached one... I could try before calling showDocument:
Url.openConnection().setUseCaches(false);However, I know this would create a new connection, and I don't know if that's the one that showDocument() will use or if it will internally use anotherone...
Any idea?

Answer 1

I don't know if I can help you with this.
I am able to run the following applet successfully in my Netscape 7.1 browser on Windows 2000 professional. I am including it for you to try. Although I have a feeling it is probably similar enough to what you have already tried, my interest in this topic has to do with the fact that I am having the same error as you when I run an applet in Camino v0.7 on Mac OS X 10.2 and also an older version of Mozilla 1.0.2 also on the Mac. Like you, I don't see any error messages. The browser simply does not redirect to the new page. The thought here is that if you are not able to redirect a user using an applet that will redirect a user on my own Netscape/Windows environment, maybe then the problem will turn out to be one of configuration (? or not) and hopefully I can solve it somehow on Camino. In any case, I'll be watching this thread hoping for a solution for you.
public class RedirectApplet extends java.applet.Applet
     public void init()
     public void start()
          redirect();
     }// end start
     private void redirect()
          try{
          java.net.URL url
          = new java.net.URL(getCodeBase() + "/WebPage.html");
          this.getAppletContext().showDocument(url, "_self");
          catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println("Error with redirection - " + e.getMessage());
     }// end method
}// end applet class