I am getting this error message:
HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL
When I try to launch the below servlet with the below web.xml. please what could be causing it. I am using
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import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class Hello extends HttpServlet
{
public void doPost(HttpServlet req, HttpServletResponse rep)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
PrintWriter out = rep.getWriter();
rep.setContentType("text/html");
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("<center><h1>Hello</h1></centre>");
out.println("</html>");
out.println("</body>");
}
}
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web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>fred</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HowdyServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>fred</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/howdy.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
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