applet servlet communication

[kashyap parekh]

i am trying to call a servlet from an applet in my html page
but when i use a genric servlet the servlet gives me an output but when i use the httpservlet the servlet gets initialised i.e the init method is called but none of the other methods are executed
i am not using the url to send the query but am using the servletInputstream and the ServletoutputStreams to get and send the data

can any one help out with this
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