Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC & IE40

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Mikael Hammarin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Since the bug in Internet Explorer 4.0 doesn't allow you to
> make a Class.forName("portgresql.Driver") to load the postgresql-
> driver, I now load it manually with DriverManager.registerDriver()
> instead. However, now I get a "not-very-wanted" errormsg
> "cannot access "hostname.com""... ?

Is hostname.com your postgresql server?

I presume you are using:

java.sql.DriverManager.registerDriver(new Driver());

This is how the driver registers itself

> Anyone familiar with this? What class generates this msg?
> (what exception?)

The only place I can think is IOException (unless your postgresql server
is not the same as the web server).

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