To reproduce on solaris:

 - Start Javaws, clear cache, let the remote panel to be the current panel.

 - Now select preference, at manual proxy setting, enter
   host name to be comanche.eng.sun.com, leave port number empty.
   Click OK. (If you click apply you will see port number is -1,
   then click ok.) Now you can notice remote panel will not change. quit javaws.

 - Now in the javaws.cfg file, the port number is -1.
   javaws.cfg.proxy.httpport=-1

 - Restart javaws, now you will see the proxy prompt, the port number is
   -1. You change it to be correct one, say 80.

 - After you click ok, wait a while, you will see the following exception
   at command line:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: port out range:-1
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:253)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:100)
        at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:50)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:331)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient$3.run(HttpClient.java:348)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.privilegedOpenServer(HttpClient.java:345)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:507)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.&lt;init&gt;(HttpClient.java:267)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.&lt;init&gt;(HttpClient.java:277)
        at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:289)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:379)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:472)
        at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:798)
        at com.sun.javaws.ui.player.HTMLEntryManager.parseURL(HTMLEntryManager.java:144)
        at com.sun.javaws.ui.player.HTMLEntryManager.access$0(HTMLEntryManager.java:137)
        at com.sun.javaws.ui.player.HTMLEntryManager$1.run(HTMLEntryManager.java:103)


  The remote panel becomes empty.


 - Now when you click preference, the port number is correct.

The problem is remote panel is trying to get to remote homepage before the
new port number takes effect. Also see bug 4370042.

yu.wang@eng 2000-09-22