Netscape 4.7, 1.3.1 Plug-In download
Hi,
Is this broken again? I am using 1.3.1 plug-in. IE knows where it is, but Netscape, even if I indulge it and download it again, install it again, it cannot find it. I get the browser window with the plug-in icon saying click here after plug-in is installed but nothing happens. I am using some tried and true html, I am using a self signed certificate which I imported into all my cacert files, though this isn't the problem because it hasn't gotten that far.
I got all this working last winter with 1.3.0 without a problem, I am reproducing the same steps with the same html format as before. Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks
Joanne
Here is more information. I am on a Win2k pro machine, service pack 2, using the 1.3.1 b-24 jdk/jre. I deleted the java plug-in from my machine that was automatically installed when I installed the JDK and then let my html for my applet retrieve the plug-in, using IE. The plug-in was downloaded and unpackaged and then hung.
Does anyone know if there are any reported problems with this configuration?
I would like to go back to NT 4 sp6 and jre 1.3.0. Everything worked great back then but my hands are tied.
Thanks for any info.
Joanne
Have a look at Bug #4393067. Not sure if it applies to you. You say that the install hung while some comments in this bug say crash while others say Illegal Operation. It does sound like this is a bug from 1.3.0_01 that was fixed in _02 and reintroduced in 1.3.1. The official workaround is to install the plug-in manually! macgibbon's comment offers an alternative workaround. Though the bug deals with 1.3.0_01, you'll see from the comments at the bottom that people on a variety of platforms are having the problem with 1.3.1.
Thanks for the info. I think my best bet will be to hunt down an older version of the jdk, possibly 1.3 jdk and jre of course, and have my customers install the plug-in that way from a controled source. If while installing my server software, I also copy down a controlled version (one I know works) of the jre for the plug-in, I beleive I can just point my plug-in install there instead of to the latest availabe from sun which has proven useless. I wanted to do this anyway and do this using the silent install so the customers won't freak out.
I believe if I do this, I will have a working product and then can test subsequent releases of the jre for "trustworthiness" before deploying them.
I like to get all this stuff ironed out before I with a test app/applet before I commit to the implemenation.
Thanks again for the info
Joanne
