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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:50:50 -0500
From:      gary.rafe@utoledo.edu (Dr. Gary E. RAFE)
To:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Working Java plugin for Netscape 7.1(Linux)?
Message-ID:  <200312262150.hBQLooZh021196@green.eng.utoledo.edu>

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Seasons Greetings!

We have been using Netscape 7.1 for Linux since it became available
this past summer, and have been pleased with its stability on our
FreeBSD 4.8-R systems.

Except for one thing -- we haven't been able to get Java plugin
support to work.

Our latest experiment goes like this:

Netscape 7.1:
  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1

Sun Java2 JRE (j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin):
  java version "1.4.2_03"
  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
  Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode)

Symbolic link from /pathto/Netscape7.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to
 /pathto/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Netscape starts without complaint.

>From the Netscape menu bar:
Help -> About Plugins
  Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03-b02

      File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
      Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03

Tools -> Web Development -> Java Console
Console messages:
  **************** SERVER ERROR **************
  Could not connect to host
  **************** ************ **************

  **************** SERVER ERROR **************
  write_fully: Did not write everything pipe=26 4 -1
  **************** ************ **************

Netscape hangs; '^C' (interrupt) to kill hung processes.
Same thing when we do this as "root".
Same response with Mozilla 1.5 for Linux.

Can anyone comment on (a) what might be missing in our
FreeBSD/Linux emulation to make this work,
or (b) that this is known, in fact, not to work due to some
missing functionality in the Linux emulation.

Cheers!
--
Gary E. RAFE, Ph.D.
gary.rafe@utoledo.edu



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