What are the Servlet equivalents to all the CGI environment variables?
You cannot replace applets with servlets, however if… Author: Andrew Howard (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=225016), Oct 16, 2000 You cannot replace applets with servlets, however if your applet happens to connect to a server using a specific port other than 80 you will realise that you can have security issues with client’s firewalls. This is where servlets come in. With servlets you can create your own protocol within HTTP which is called HTTP Tunnelling this allows the servlet to use the Serializable interface of ojects to copy the object through the HTTP protocol and then the applet can use this object as it pleases.