Hi,

I may have inadvertently sent a blank msg a minute ago. Sorry if so!

I am seeing this error: http get method not allowed by URL.
My html calls a Servlet which has both a doPost and a doGet method. The action in my html originally used method="post". I tried changing it to "get" and get same error. If I take out the method part out of the action completely, I still see the error. I saw the recent post on having args switched (req and resp) when calling the servlet and getting this error, but my args look ok. Any ideas?

Thanks

All Web servers can be configured to allow or disallow any method. For example if a Web server is 'read-only' (no client can modify URL resources on the Web server), then it could be set up to disallow the PUT and DELETE methods. Similarly if there is no user input (all the Web pages are static), then the POST method could be disallowed. So 405 errors can arise because the Web server is not configured to take data from the client at all. They can also arise if the client does not have sufficient authority to the particular URL resource identified on the request.

Can you post the code, including the url link?

Martyn,
Thanks for your reply. To try to get to the root of the problem, I stripped out all of my code not related to the GET/POST and now both get and post work with the URL. I have to admit I don't know exactly what caused the problem. Just for reference, you mention that POST/GET can be disallowed. Would this be done in the web.xml?

Usually this will be a congifuration that will be undertaken by the web server administrator