Re: IE6 + WinXP + JRE 1.5.0_05: applets won't load
- From: "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:38:38 -0500
<thomas_okken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1130693890.029174.284530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just set up a new PC with XP sp2, all the latest updates from
> windowsupdate.microsoft.com, and the latest JRE.
> When I go to a web page with applets on it, the applets don't load, and
> when I try to leave the page, the browser freezes, presumably because
> the JVM hangs trying to download the applet.
> Web Start doesn't work either; double-clicking on a JNLP that I
> downloaded manually yields "checking for latest version" indefinitely.
>
> I'm behind a SOCKS v4 proxy; IE (and Mozilla) have no problems with the
> proxy. I told Java to use the browser settings. (I also tried setting
> Java's settings manually, but that made no difference.)
Perhaps it would help to elaborate on that?
E.g. did you use one of the "reload proxy configuration" commands
in the Sun Java Console or the Java Control Panel applet?
While you're there did you try activating its trace? Any results?
> I also tried reconfiguring the gateway to use Win2k connection sharing
> instead of the SOCKS proxy; the result was the same as above: once the
> network interface, DNS, and proxy settings are appropriately changed on
> the XP box, IE and Mozilla are happy, but Java still can't seem to load
> anything.
>
> I tried downgrading to JRE 1.4.2_09; result: applets now load in IE,
> but not in Mozilla, and of course Web Start is hopeless in this
> configuration because it won't play ball with SOCKS proxies.
>
> (BTW, applets work fine when loaded from the local filesystem, so this
> really seems like it has to be some network connectivity issue.)
> I have no clue what could be wrong; a different PC with Win2K works
> fine in the same environment. Maybe some XP security feature is
> blocking my connections? I tried turning of the XP firewall but that
> made no difference (and what really gets me is why can the browsers
> load HTML pages without problem, while Java can't load applets with the
> same settings?).
Have you tried looking for support from Sun?
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> Strange...
>
> - Thomas
>
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