130740 - Applets not loading on http://chat.yahoo.com

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Patty Mac]

Seen on all platforms using (Commercial netscape build: 2002-03-13-09-trunk)
and branch build.

1. Type this url:  http://chat.yahoo.com/
2. Make sure you log in your name and password (if you don't have one, you
   need to creat it, it's free).
3. Click on "Enter Chat Room"
Notice the applet is sometimes not loading. If it's loading fine, but you can 
not type something to chat with your friends.

Comment 1

[shrirang khanzode]

I assume jre1.3.1_02. 

Comment 2

[Patty Mac]

The chat yahoo applet not loading with the following steps:
(1)Jre 1.3.1_02 with the branch build.
(2)On windows 98, I used  commercial netscape build: (2002-03-13-09-trunk), 
choose  "Custom". So it's JRE 1.3.1.
(3)On Mac OS 9.2, I used coommercial netscape build: (2002-03-11-08-trunk), 
choose Custom". 

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

also see bug 77857. it's a year old bug but mentions the same issue. don't think 
it's being looked at by anyone.

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I see the same problem in the following applets with JRE 1.3.1_02.

http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/Collate/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/MessageFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/DateTimeFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/NumberFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/TextBound/index.html

Comment 5

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I forgot to mention I saw the problem in the comment #4 on Redhat Linux 7.1 and 6.2.

Comment 6

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

Attachment: Java Console log showing failure.

This is representitive of the failure I have seen on both Mac OS X and Win2k.

Comment 7

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I do not know this problem is same as Java sun applet problem.

http://chat.yahoo.com does not load on Windows 2k.  Java sun applet does not
load on Linux.

I looked at the source in
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/MessageFormat/index.html
HTML file calls <applet codebase="../code"
CODE="MessageFormatDemo.class" WIDTH=55 HEIGHT=30 align=middle>

However, http://chat.yahoo.com has more complicated than this.

Comment 8

[Denis Antrushin]

First, chat applet requires direct connection to server (port 8002 in my case).
If applet can't establish connection to this port, it exit
This is why is doesn't work from behind firewalls.
(It behaves the same way in NS 4.76 either)

I also tried it on win98 machine with direct connection to inet and have seen
couple of |NullPointerException|s.

I'm not a windows person and can't find some spare time to rebuild jdk
on my FreeBSD machine to get working java plugin, so I can't do anything here :-)
We need someone with direct inet connection to debug this.

Comment 9

[Denis Antrushin]

Well, I got the following trace from java plugin:
nsILiveConnect::GetWindow() FAILED.
(this wasn't last line of trace, but latter lines don't display any errors)

What I seen is applet loads, user list appears, dissapers and that's it.
Mozilla not hangs (at least UI is responsive), but applet and java console
looks hanged. 

(I'm on FreeBSD-4.3_STABLE, java plugin 1.3.1, direct connection to inet)

Comment 10

[Denis Antrushin]

*** Bug 77857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[James Rome]

It loads for me, but the chat window is so small (and unresizeable) so that you
cannot use it.

Comment 12

[Susie Wyshak]

Chat loaded perfectly for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020314

Comment 13

[Steve Dagley]

Brian, haven't you been working on this bug, or a dupe of it?

Comment 14

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

All of the links in this bug WFM using the latest mozilla trunk bits on both Mac
OS X and Win2K.

Comment 15

[Patty Mac]

http://chat.yahoo.com loads fine on Mac OS 10.1.4, linux redhat 7.1, and windows
98 using both branch build (2002-04-29-08-1.0.0) and commercial trunk
(2002-04-29-10-TRUNK).

Teruko, perhaps, you might open a new bug with the following links because 
they sometimes load fine but sometimes they don't load.

http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/Collate/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/MessageFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/DateTimeFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/NumberFormat/index.html
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.1/demo/i18n/TextBound/index.html

Comment 16

[Yuying Long]

Patty, we have a bug filed for i18n demos are not loaded on linux.  Did you see
it on other platforms?

Comment 17

[James Rome]

With the 5/1 build on win2k, the chats on Yahoo 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/group-name/chat
still load in a tiny window that is non-functional.
It is about 2" x 2" and not resizeable.

You will have to join a group to test this...