Platform : Win 98SE / Win NT / Win 2000
Browser : IE 5.0, Netscape 4.x , NS6.1
Build : MB71
SUT : merlot, lemonade, dnm-dtf-001 (lab 1457)

Steps to Reproduce

 1.) On a Win 98SE machine , Install the J2SE for merlin build 61 from :
     /net/sqesvr/deployment3/merlin/beta/win32.b71/

 2.) go to the below link and execute the testcases
     http://sqesvr.eng.sun.com/deployment1/ws/doc/proc/JPI_https.html

 3.) Go to Quicklook Test Cases: (Apache Web Server: )
     Execute the test case
     https://129.144.85.140/https/tests/GP.html


RESULT : It throws the below mentioned Exceptions

Note : When I test this on Solaris and Linux platforms these test cases PASS, I also tested with Merlin B70 and the test cases are passing on windows platform also along with solaris and linux platforms

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Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.0
Using JRE version 1.4.0-beta_refresh Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = C:\WINDOWSProxy Configuration: Manual Configuration
     Proxy: http=webcache-cup:8080,https=webcache-cup:8080,ftp=webcache-cup:8080,gopher=webcache-cup:8080
     Proxy Overrides: javator.eng----------------------------------------------------
c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
p: reload proxy configuration
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system properties
t: dump thread list
x: clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
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java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.getURLStreamHandler(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at java.net.URL.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.getDocumentBase(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.getCodeBase(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.appletInit(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.ocx.ActiveXAppletViewer$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.security.MessageDigest.update(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.security.WSecureRandom.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor116.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.security.Security.doGetImpl(Unknown Source) at java.security.Security.doGetImpl(Unknown Source) at java.security.Security.getImpl(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureRandom.getInstance(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureRandom.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.services.WIExplorerBrowserService.getSecureRandom(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.net.protocol.https.Handler.<clinit>(Unknown Source) ... 11 morejava.lang.NullPointerException at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.getCodeBase(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.appletInit(Unknown Source) at sun.plugin.ocx.ActiveXAppletViewer$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


anjana.prabhakar@Eng 2001-07-26

Https tests are still failing with merlin beta-refresh build-72 on win ME with IE5.0, NS4.7x and NS 6.1