Passing parameters to jApplet

I have a jApplet that I need to pass parameters to. I would like to be able to use something like http://myserver/myapplet.html?params=NAME~John to bring up the applet in my page and pass the NAME parameter to my applet. Is this possible? Thanks

If you have something on the server which will, when it sees such a request for an HTML request, produce a modified version of the HTML page with the appropriate <param> tag in it. Usually people would use a JSP or some similar server-side application to do that.

I cant create a custom HTML file on request. My applet is embedded inside a page with a large amount of external headers, footers and navigation panels that I cant really duplicate with my JSP. But can I create a custom JNLP and simply reference that from the HTML? Ideas?