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Passing data from applet back to html form ?

I'm writing an applet that has a customized list .  Once
the user picks an item from the list, is there anyway to send this data back to the .html form that called it??

I see you can pass parameters from the .html to the applet, but can information be passed back?  I'm trying not to
program the entire form in java.

Thanks in advance.
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This is how I send back information to a cgi-script on my server:

Note that the applet does not fill the form, but it calls the same cgi-script as the form does and passes the parameters directly to the cgi script.


qs is the query string which is appendend to the name of the cgi-sript.
cgiHome is the the location of the script (eg: www.home.com/cgi-bin/)


      try {
      String thisLine;
      String qs = "item="+item +"&price="+price;

      URL u = new URL(cgiHome + "results?" + qs);

      DataInputStream theHTML =
             new DataInputStream(u.openStream());
      while ((thisLine = theHTML.readLine()) != null) {
      parent.showStatus(thisLine);
      }
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println(e);
    }
 

Let me resubmit it as an answer if this is what you wanted.

 cheers,

    Philippe