Platform : Solaris7 / Win NT
Browser NS 4.75 / IE 5.0

Steps to Reproduce

On a solaris machine , Install the J2SE for merlin build 32 from :
/net/sqesvr/deployment3/merlin/beta/solaris.b32

On a Win NT machine , Install the J2SE for merlin build 32 from :
/net/sqesvr/deployment3/merlin/beta/win32.b32


Go to the below link for demos outside the Sun firewall
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/demos/applets.html

Look for JFC Applets -> SwingSet2 Applet

Results :

It throws the following exceptions on Solaris

Swingset demos :
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 java.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: (No such file or directory)
  at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
  at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:64)
  at sun.plugin.protocol.jdk12.http.HttpURLConnection$FileCreator.run(HttpURLConnection.java:358)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)


On Windows NT it throws following exceptions
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 java.net.SocketException: socket closed: Bad file number
  at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(Native Method)
  at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:86)
  at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:186)