[AWS] Applet error

Dmitriy Anisimkov anisimkov@omsknet.ru
Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:02:36 +0600


Francisco Sanchez wrote:

> Hello, I am doing a web server with AWS and my pages have an applet 
> inside. When the client open a page served by my aws server, the 
> applet get the next error: "Exception: java.lang.ClassFormatError: 
> my_applet (Bad magic number)". This error is produced when the file 
> which contains the applet has been sent from server to client in ascci 
> mode insted of binary mode. Does AWS support the binary mode to send 
> files? Does AWS has been tested with applets? Am I doing anythig bad?

HTTP protocol does not have difference between binary and text mode in 
the data stream format.

What AWS version do you use ?

I remember that some early AWS version has a problem with applet loadings.
Last published AWS 1.3 should work correctly with it.

I'm loading Java applets thru AWS in the production servers. See

http://64.247.48.182:8110/run?entry=demo.20&db=middle_entries&namespace=TRADING