I read through the app deployment section of the book, however I didn't find an answer to this.

I wrote a Java application that accesses a servlet. When the servlet is publically accessible on the Internet, the Java application can see it.

However, when I move the servlet behind the firewall (say, 10.0.x.x), I get a connection failure.

I know that the Blackberry can access that server. If I type in the servlet URL, I can see it using the Blackberry Browser. I just can't see it with the Java application (I'm using HttpConnection Connector.open()).

So, I'm assuming its a configuration issue. I made a policy for the application and set 'local network connections' and 'internal network connections' to allow. However, I still can't connect my app to the internal servlet.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Warren

Hi Warren.

This is indeed a mystery. I will do a bit of digging around to see if I can come up with an answer to this.

Cheers.

Craig.

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Thanks Craig. I'll whip up a very simple test case to access an internal network server.

-Warren

Hi Craig,

I've tried using the sample application HttpDemo, that is provided in the IDE (this way we're working off the same code base).

I can access an internet URL with this app. However, I can't access an internal URL (after a bit of a delay, I finally get a connection failure).

This same internal URL can be accessed using the Blackberry browser, however.

I'm using a Nextel phone, using BES, and not using WAP.

Any ideas?

Hi Warren.

Now that you mention that you are using the Nextel BlackBerry, it makes sense. The Nextel, for some reason, always tries to access URL's using the Nextel network, and not MDS. You can force it to use MDS by doing this:
- Add deviceside=false at the end of the URL.

This URL has some details.

What are - The different ways to make an HTTP or socket connection
Article Number: DB-00396
http://tinyurl.com/appgw

I hope that this helps.

Cheers.

Craig.

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