Name: yyT116575 Date: 02/20/2001


C:\WINDOWS>java -version
java version "1.3.1-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-beta-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1beta-b15, mixed mode)

This bug has already been submitted for JPI 1.3.0_01. I have retested with
JPI 1.3.1 and the problem persists:

This problem only occurs with Netscape 4.7 on Windows 98 (version 4.10.1998)
I didn't test on Windows 95/ME.

My applet is sending back and forth serializable objects with Tomcat 3.2 over
Apache 1.3.9. In non-consistent cases (but very often) the applet just hangs
while waiting for the response (I can see in my server log that the request has
been processed on the server).
I tried with a dial-up connection and a Ethernet connection and the results
have been the same. However, with the modem I can see that the data has been
received (light flashing on the modem itself) but the modem indicator in Win98
doesn't show the incoming bytes.
If I click on any icon in the taskbar or even if I just move my mouse over a
DOS prompt (doesn't work for calculator ;), the modem indicator starts to
change and the applet works well again.

It works fine with JPI 1.3.0. This bug has been introduced in 1.3.0_01. Most of
our clients use Win98 so this is very critical and we need 1.3.0_01 because
another major bug has been fixed (Bug 4351860) in this version.

Here is the code I use to send and receive request in the applet:

   URL url = new URL(myApplet.getCodeBase(), "/myservlet");
   URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

   contentType = obj.getClass().getName();
   con.setDoInput(true);
   con.setDoOutput(true);
   con.setUseCaches(false);
   //Set the content type to be java-internal/classname
   con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "java-internal/" + contentType);
   //Write the serialized object as post data
   ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
   out.writeObject(obj);
   out.flush();

   InputStream is = con.getInputStream();
   ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(is);
   Object result = ois.readObject();
(Review ID: 117349)
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