Name: rlT66838 Date: 11/10/99


java version "1.2.2"
Classic VM (build JDK-1.2.2-001, native threads, symcjit)

The sample code demonstrates a problem using HTTPS to communicate with a web
server under IE. Under Netscape this code works exactly as intended (to print
out the contents of the stream from the web server for the given URL).

Note: The HTML was converted using HTMLConverter version 1.2, the exact plugin
specified is not 1.2.2, however, as shown by the Plug-In Java console window the
correct plugin is being executed. Manually editing the HTML to point
specifically to the 1.2.2 plugin does not change the results of this test.

------ APPLET SOURCE CODE -------
import java.applet.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class ClientTest extends Applet {
   public void start() {
      URLConnection c;
      try {
      URL d=new URL("https://localhost:443/servlet/ConfigServlet");
      c=d.openConnection();
      InputStreamReader i=new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream());
      char r=0;
      while(r!=-1) {
         r=(char)i.read();
         if(r==-1)
            break;
         System.out.print(r);
      }
      System.out.println("Sent request");
      } catch(Exception e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}
------ END APPLET SOURCE -------

------ HTML -------
<OBJECT classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
WIDTH = 100 HEIGHT = 100
codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.2/jinstall-12-win32.cab#Ve
rsion=1,2,0,0">
<PARAM NAME = CODE VALUE = ClientTest.class >

<PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.2">
<COMMENT>
<EMBED type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.2" java_CODE =
ClientTest.class WIDTH = 100 HEIGHT
= 100 pluginspage="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.2/plugin-
install.html"><NOEMBED></COMMENT
>
</NOEMBED></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
------- END HTML --------

------- PLUGIN CONSOLE OUTPUT -------
Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.2.2.p001
Using JRE version 1.2.2
  User home directory = H:\system
Proxy Configuration: Manual Configuration [removed details]
JAR cache disabled.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.Reader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at ClientTest.start(ClientTest.java, Compiled Code)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
------- END CONSOLE OUTPUT -------
(Review ID: 97642)
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