HTTP response code 500

[Siddharth Ramavat]

hi,
When i was trying to call servlet from my java application in swing it shows me IOException and HTTP response code 500...

Can anybody tell me what is that and why it has occured...?

Thank You
Siddharth Ramavat

[David O'Meara]

500 means 'Something went wrong in you servlet', it is usually accomonied by another exception, the one which actually caused the error.

[K Riaz]

Its an error on the server side, try posting your servlet code using the CODE tag.

[Jeroen Wenting]

in other words, your application didn't call the servlet correctly causing it to explode in your face and/or the servlet has a bug (you could say that not handling erroneous requests gracefully could be a bug if the servlet was exposed to the outside world).