123452 - Error with java plugin and HTTPS post.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135840

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Stephane Saux]

Somebody reports the following error (you need a developer.java.sun.com account
to view this).

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4532335.html

Nelson, I cc you just in case it has to do with ssl.

Comment 1

[Nalp]

FYI, I just tested our app (which uses the java plugin
and HTTPS) with Mozilla 0.9.7, and the mentioned bug
didn't show up. It did crash with Netscape 6.2.1,
so I think, it is a Netscape bug or a bug of an older
version of Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Igor Kushnirskiy]

moving to OJI

Comment 3

[bcortez]

Since there isn't much info on this bug here, it may be a dup of Mozilla Bug 
112055 or Mozilla Bug 65832.  You may want to look at those and cross-refernece 
what you are experiencing....  And please give more information for those of us 
who don't have a Sun developer account.... :)
Thanks...

Comment 4

[Nalp]

I am afraid, it is not exactly the same bug but very similar: Bug 112055 
doesn't encode the serialized Java object correctly, this bug here doesn't send 
it at all.

Here a partial copy and paste of the bug description from the Bug Id 4532335 of 
Sun's Bug Parade:

java version "1.3.1_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_01, mixed mode)


Problem:
When trying to HTTPS post request using ObjectOutputStream from applet,
Plug-in Applet in Netscape6.2 hangs by calling stream's close();
This problem occurs only in Netscape6.2 + Java Plug-in Applet(JRE_1.3.1_01)
with HTTPS
and normal HTTP connection works fine even in Netscape6.2 + Java Plug-in Applet
(JRE_1.3.1_01).
HTTPS + IE6.0 + Java Plug-in doesn't cause this problem. They always work
fine.


Detail:
When calling ObjectOutputStream's close(), never returns from close(). No
Exception occurs.
no HTTPS request comes to web server according to ssl_request.log etc.
Next I monitored the encrypted TCP packets sent from browser to http server to
see if this is a server's problem or client's,
and The result was that no paket was sent from Client PC.
So I consider this is Plug-in Applet's problem or maybe Netscape API because
Java Plug-in leverages the HTTPS support in the browser and uses the browser's
API for making HTTPS connections according to
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/https.html.

Comment 5

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Dupe of 135840.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135840 ***