61020 - [RFE] HTTP Site for java plugin

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Steve Chapel]

When I try to install the Java 2 Plug-in for Windows, the only choice for
Location that I get is an ftp URI. Because I'm behind a firewall and must use an
authenticating proxy, I can't download from an ftp site.

If I could select an http URI, as I can when installing PSM, I should be able to
download and install the Java 2 Plug-in without problem.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Reporter is this still a problem in the latest nightlies?

Comment 2

[Steve Chapel]

Yes, with nightly build 2000121804, still the only choice for a download 
location for the Java 2 Plug-in is an FTP site. I need an HTTP site in order to 
download the Plug-in through the authenticating proxy I use.

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW so someone will add it so it can be downloaded.

Comment 4

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to grega and moving to m1.0. grega, is this important to you?

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

I dont think this is a mozilla bug.
You can just go to http://java.sun.com and download the JRE from their site 
directly

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 7

[Peter Lubczynski]

I think this may be changing soon with bug 83754.

Is this bug valid anymore? I thought we ARE using an HTTP URL?

Arun/Todd do you know anything about this? What's Greggl's bugzilla e-mail?

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

20020116 works for me.
more info on how to get Java working in Mozilla see
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/java.html

Comment 9

[shrirang khanzode]

v

Comment 10

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.