Tomcat Problem??

james_mcgovern

Hi,
Im getting this error:
HTTP Status 405 HTTP Method POST is not supported by this URL

Im trying to run a small JavaMail program from tomcat
I have the servlet included in the web.xml file
<servlet>
..
..
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
..
..
</servlet-mapping>

Im running many other servlets with the same authority constraints and they work fine. For some reason this servlet wont
Any ideas??
Thanks

Evil Phil

Post the servlet code and the code of whatever is calling it.

Whats happening is whatever is calling the servlet is using a HTTP Post request to do so, your servlet doesn't support this.

james_mcgovern

This is the code
note: I have tried it with POST and doPost
the html part is at the bottom of the file

DSLinAbsentia

The act of simply accessing a servlet from a URL (i.e., http://host/servlet/MyServlet, issues a GET request to that servlet.

If you're trying to sent data from a form using the GET method, then you need something like this...

<form method="GET" action="/servlet/MyServlet">
blah blah
</form>

alternatively, if you want your servlet to cover the GET & POST methods, then simply add the following to your servlet class


public void doPost (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) {
doGet (req, res);
}

Now whatever way your servlet is called it will behave.

Hope this helps.