Originally posted by Jeanne Boyarsky:
Trelston,
Welcome to JavaRanch!
Can you connect to mysql from the command line with that username/password? This will help narrow down where the problem lies.
Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
Welcome to JavaRanch.
JSPs are not meant for streaming files. They'll generally insert white space characters that are hard (or may be impossible) to get rid of. What you're seeing is probably an artifact of that. Use a servlet instead.