help with an error message

[J Derzaph]

I'm not sure if this is the right catagory for this one or not but here goes:
I'm trying to call a servlet with some javascript using XMLHttpRequest. the servlet is in the same domain but I'm getting this error:

uncaught exception: Access to restricted URI denied (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)
[Break on this error] req.open("GET", url, true);

I understand this usually has to do with the same origin policy and accesssing other domains but the servlet is in the same domain here.

Here is the code:

var num = document.getElementById("rLicense").value;
    if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") 
    {
      req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } 
    else if (window.ActiveXObject) 
    {
      req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    var url = "autoSearchServlet?vin=" + encodeURIComponent(num.value);
    req.open("GET", url, true);
    req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

The file structure looks like this:
/Scottys/scripts.js -where the javascript is
/Scottys/contract.html -where the script is called from
/Scottys/servlets/autoSearchServlet -the servlet its trying to call

[Bear Bibeault]

Your web app structure looks wonky to begin with. Servlets need to be compiled and located in the hierarchy at WEB-INF/classes or in a jar file in WEB-INF/lib.

Can you "hit" the servlet by typing its URL into the address bar?
[ September 17, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[J Derzaph]

Sorry, missed a couple of directories in there. The path for the servlet would be:
Scottys/WEB-INF/classes/servlets
the other two files are
Scottys/WEB-INF/contract.html
Scottys/WEB-INF/scripts.js

and i can hit it using the url

I think I may have found the problem though. I wasn't calling it from where I thought I was.