Re: Attn: Peter Mount

peter@retep.org.uk is his current email ...

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Allan Huffman wrote:

> Hello Peter,
>
> Email to your petermount@maidstone.gov.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
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org