Re: JDK 1.5.0_05 won't load applets from the Internet?
- From: Nigel Wade <nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:30:14 +0000
thomas_okken@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm setting up a new PC with a brand-new installation of Windows XP and
> Fedora Core 3 (each with all the latest updates).
> I'm having trouble with the Java plug-in: it won't load any applets
> from the Internet (from the local filesystem works fine). I'm behind a
> SOCKS v4 proxy; the browsers and DNS are configures appropriately and
> surfing the net works fine, using Mozilla and IE under Windows and
> using Mozilla under Linux -- but trying to load a page with an applet
> just displays the pretty coffee mug image where the applet should be,
> and when I try to leave the page, the browser hangs, presumably because
> the JVM is stuck trying to download the applet.
> I tried reconfiguring the gateway to use plain NAT, so I could take the
> proxy out of the picture, but this did not fix things.
>
> I never had problems like these with JDK 1.4.2.*, but with 1.5.0_05, I
> just can't get it to work at all. Web Start doesn't work either -- just
> sits there "checking for latest version" indefinitely.
>
> I have Java configured to use the browser's settings; configuring the
> proxy settings manually makes no difference. (Of course when I use NAT
> on the gateway, there is no proxy involved at all, but that does not
> work either.)
>
> N.B. The applets themselves do not appear to be the problem -- I tried
> some really simple ones, including samples from the Java Tutorial;
> nothing even gets pulled across the network.
>
> I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this -- I'm stumped!
> Thanks,
>
> - Thomas
Has some overzealous, paranoid, network security admin put a content scanning
firewall in place which blocks applets?
Some security admins believe the FUD from Microsoft that Java applets are
insecure and should be blocked (while at the same time allowing ActiveX, IM and
all the rest of the completely insecure MS traffic).
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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