signed applets in 1.6

Hello,

since the usage of Java 1.6 we have the strange problem that the plugin seems to ignore the certificate of all signed applets comming from a single server. No "trust applet" dialog pops up, the console says nothing about reading a certificate, nor errors (even with debug parameters turned on). Only the applet behaves as if it were not signed (i.e. AccessControlException occurs).

The jarsigner-tool's "verify" option gives no errors for the jars.

The plugin panels of the several JREs have no certificates stored of us (i.e. no "always trust" permission was granted).

Unfortunatly we cannot reproduce this failure on a second (plain) server, i.e. a testcase is not available.

This problem occurs with both the WinXP- and Linux-plugin, with Firefox 1.5 and 2, in short on every system with Firefox and the 1.6 plugin (another browser cannot be used).

This problem doesn't occur with the previous plugin releases 1.4 and 1.5.

Has anyone encountered the same problem?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[1069 byte] By [markiGa] at [2007-11-26 16:04:46]
# 1

We have hit this problem too.

Have you found a solution ?

My observations are that all the combinations of Firefox/Linux/Win XP you report exhibit the same behaviour here. In addition IE7 also behaves like this.

With Opera 9.20/linux, I do not get the problem.

(Haven' t tried Opera/Win XP)

Firefox uses /usr/java/jre1.6.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Opera uses /usr/java/jre1.6.0_01/lib/i386/libjava.so

mike_buncea at 2007-7-8 22:26:47 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Deploying...
# 2

OK - I should have read more widely before posting.

bug 6519657 gives me the solution.

The applet files are all <something>.jar.sig

I rename them to <something>.sig.jar and all is well.

Doesn't really help our existing customers when they upgrade to jre 1.6 though.....

mike_buncea at 2007-7-8 22:26:47 > top of Java-index,Desktop,Deploying...