HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

From:

joshua <chambers.joshua@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

29 Apr 2007 13:27:39 -0700

Message-ID:

<1177878459.528744.101640@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>

Hello! So finally I got my servlet working and interacting with my
applet via the org.apache.commons.HttpClient package. I got the POST
to work and give a response, and then I tried to add the element of
the RequestEntity, which I don't QUITE thoroughly understand, but
based on every example I've found, I think I've got right, except my
servlet returns a:

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

I have tried each of the RequestEntities (StringRequestEntity,
ByteArrayRequestEntity, and InputStreamRequestEntity). I know that my
PostMethod object works, because I had it tested, and then the
relevant part of the applet code this this:

---

            try {
             ByteArrayRequestEntity request = new
ByteArrayRequestEntity(audioBytes);
             serverPost.setContentChunked(true);

                try {
                    httpClient.executeMethod(serverPost);
                    if (serverPost.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {

testText.setText(serverPost.getResponseBodyAsString());
                     System.out.println("success: " +
serverPost.getResponseBodyAsString());

                    } else {

                        //testText.setText("Unexpected failure: " +
serverPost.getStatusLine().toString());
                     System.out.println("Unexpected failure: " +
serverPost.getStatusLine().toString());
                    }

                } finally {
                    serverPost.releaseConnection();
                }

     } catch (HttpException ex) {
     System.out.println(ex.toString());
     } catch (IOException ex) {
     System.out.println(ex.toString());
     }

---

Every time, I just get that error:
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

I'm unable to find any other debugging information... any help is
thoroughly appreciated, thank you!

Joshua