IOException when i close a stream in Applet WHY!!!!

[john mattucci]

I have an applet which connects to a servlet which in turn connect to sql.I get the following error however IOEXception at java/io/ObjectOutputStream.close
Thank u all for your time
URL dataURL = new URL("http://servename/Servlet/Serve";);
URLConnection connection = dataURL.openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setUseCaches (false);
connection.setDefaultUseCaches (false);
connection.setRequestProperty ("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");

ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
out.writeObject(getTextField1().getText());
out.flush();
out.close();
out.close();out.close();

[Rob Ross]

Are you really closing this stream 3 times? If the stream is already closed, closing it again will produce an exception.

[john mattucci]

no sorry im only closing it once I was trying to make it bold and it copied it several times
sorry

[Rob Ross]

You can edit your original post if you like by clicking on the little edit icon at the top of the message (the paper and pencil icon).
As for the exception, can you include the actual output from System.err? Where is the exception getting thrown, and what does the stack trace look like?

[john mattucci]

java.io.IOException: ServerName//Servlet/Serve
at com/ms/net/net/wininet/http/HttpInputStream.connect
at com/ms/net/net/wininet/http/HttpInputStream.<init>
at com/ms/net/net/wininet/http/HttpURLConnection.createInputStream
at com/ms/net/wininet/WininetURLConnection.getInputStream
at com/net/wininet/http/HttpPostBufferStream.close
at java/io/ObjectOutputStream.close
at t/TestOne.addName
at java/lang/reflect/Method.invoke
at t/ReflectiveAction.actionPerformed
at java/awt/Button.processActionEvent
at java/awt/Button.processEvent
at java/awt/Component.dispatchEventImpl
at java/awt/Component.dispatchEvent
at java/awt/EventDispatchThread.run