How to Send Info from Applet to CGI Script ??

[Metal2You]

I want to compare a score from a game in an applet in the user's browser to the scores that are in a text file on my server. I imagine the easiest way to do this is to pass the info to a CGI scipt (will be in perl) and have the perl script do the file work. Would this be easier than having the applet do the file work remotely or passing the variables directly to the script (with use of java.pm?) ?

If someone could point me in the right direction as to where I can learn how to call a cgi script from a Java applet, or post some source code if its easy enough, I would gretly appreciarte the help. Thanks in advance.

 

[OttSens]

The easiest way is to pass it as a parameter to the
requested url.

http://www.someserver.com/cgi-bin/score.cgi?score=123&user=somebody

If you look at the address bar now as you read this
you'll see something similar.

 

[Metal2You]

Okay, thats what I thought would be the easiest way. How would I actually do that though?

 

[OttSens]

You redirect to the url.
applet.showDocument(URL);

If you want the user to stay on the same page then you
have to do it independent of the browser. The applet
can open a connection back to the machine where it
came from ONLY so the cgi script must live on the same
machine that the applet does. Then you will be able
to open a url connection to the script address and
retrieve the data without the browser leaving the
game page.