Re: Attn: Peter Mount

peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk is his current email ...

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Allan Huffman wrote:

> Hello Peter,
>
> Email to your petermount(at)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk is not working it returns the
> following:
> - Peter Mount on Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:03:47 -0000
> - The recipient name is not recognized
> - The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=GB;a= ;p=Maidstone
> - BC;l=EXCHANGE10101080903CMK14JKK MSEXCH:IMS:Maidstone Borough
> - Council:MAIDSTONE:EXCHANGE1 0 (000C05A6)
> - Unknown Recipient
>
> Happy new year! Hope that all your endeavors are successful.
>
> Well before winter break I made some head-way. After scrubbing the
> system and ensuring that I'm using the right Postgresql.jar file with
> the version of the database server (7.0.2), and using the connection
> code that you gave me, I've gotten the applet to run using the Netscape
> Communicator browser 4.73.
>
> Yep it is a pure applet. No servlette running. This is where I'm
> confused. As a pure applet the JDBC calls have to be handled by the
> browser don't they? So there has to be a JDBC driver on the client PC.
> So I figgure that the Netscape Navigator has one but the MS Explorer
> doesn't even though I loaded the MS
> virtual machine.
>
> When I get back to this application I'm going to use a applet/servlet
> architecture to reduce the download times.
>
> I've still not been able to get the MSExplorer to run the applet. The
> applet loads OK but produces the error:
> * No suitable driver
> when executing:
> - Properties prop = new Properties();
> - prop.put("user", "postgres");
> - prop.put("passwrod", "postgres");
> - con =
> DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://demo.ppc.pims.org:5432/cpass",
> prop);
>
> Thinking that it may be looking for the server JDBC driver, I've tried
> every possible combination of codebase= and archive= address I can think
> of. When I put in a absolute URL for the code= the web server could
> not find the code
> (and logged an error telling me "File not found!"). But with the "No
> suitable driver" error there is no Netscape Server error logged. So I
> suspect that the problem is on the server side. I'm presently using:
>
> <APPLET CODE="hope.class" CODEBASE="http://demo.ppc.pims.org/PASS"
> ARCHIVE="http://demo.ppc.pims.org/PASS/postgresql.jar" WIDTH=770
> HEIGTH=510></APPLET>
>
>
> Thanks for your time and recommendations,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Allan
>
>

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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