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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:22:55 PDT
From: "Stephen Peters" <###@###.###>
To: hotjava-interest@java
Subject: HotJava doesn't work through firewalls!
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Well, actually, I lied, it does. Maybe it just doesn't work through *some*
firewalls.
 
When you pull HotJava down pristine from java.sun.com, accessing sites through
the Oracle firewall fails with a message reading something like
"net.SocketException: No route to Host".
 
The problem appears to be that HotJava is expecting one kind of exception
(unknown host) when it can't find a given machine, and instead is getting the
above exception. Since HotJava only decides to route the HTTP traffic through
the firewall proxy if the exception is caught, getting the wrong exception
causes the error. I've made a temporary fix which tries the firewall if it
receives *any* exception in accessing the host.
 
This problem can be fixed by changing line 117 in
classrc/net/www/http/HttpClient.java from
 
               } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
 
to
 
               } catch (Exception e) {
 
 
and then compiling to get the new HttpClient.class.
 
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