java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: socket

Problem solved!

I noticed that the full trace of the errors contained something about proxies, so I got my friend (who has Win XP Home) to:

1) go to Control Panel -> Java

2) click the Network Settings button

3) Select Direct Connection, and click ok a couple of times to exit

No more errors! :) Sun - get this fixed ASAP!

Here is more of the trace log if anyone is interested:

java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: socket

at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)

at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)

at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source)

at java.net.URI.toURL(Unknown Source)

at

com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector.connectFailed(Unknown Source)

at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at

gibboa at 2007-7-8 22:17:18 >

There are a few bugs in the initial 6.0 version of Java Web Start related to getting the proxy settings from FireFox.

Before JDK 6, "use browser settingd" would always get the settings from IE, instead of the default browser.

The problems getting the Firefox proxies should be fixed in an early update release.

/Andy

dietz333a at 2007-7-8 22:17:18 >