Well, filing a bug report on this seemed like a good idea, but the bug
reporter system won't let me in. I can log into my ADC account just fine,
but not into the bug reporter.
Bill
>
> On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've been using Java 5 under OS X 10.4.5 to write applets that connect
> > back to a server via HTTP (specifically, using
> > javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection) and interact with the server side of
> > my application. The server requires a password login, and sends back
> > a secure cookie with a timed credential in it, for the applet to use
> > for validation in further requests. This scheme works well under
> > Safari (2.x), but with Camino or Firefox, the secure session cookie is
> > not sent with the requests from Java.
> >
> > Camino and Firefox use the Java Embedding Plugin
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaplugin/) to wrap Java for their
> > plug-in support. The problem with secure cookies is a known problem
> > (see
> > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?
> > thread_id=1298604&forum_id=371125),
> > but the maintainer doesn't have enough information about where the
> > CookieHandler class is supposed to get its information:
> >
> > ``One or two others have asked about cookie support ... and it's
> > really from what they've told me that I've concluded that cookie
> > support doesn't work (or works only partially) with the JEP. But I
> > don't understand why, and I haven't yet had the chance to look into
> > the matter.
> >
> > ``Please point me at some documentation and sample code that shows how
> > the cookie support is _supposed_ to work.''
> >
> > So -- anyone know where to find such documentation and sample code?
>
> Cookie support in the plugin relies on some classes in Foundation --
> namely, NSHTTPCookieStorage. FireFox (I assume) doesn't use that, so
> any cookies you pick up along the way won't be found in WebKit/
> Foundation's cookie database. The Java plugin assumes it will be
> running in some WebKit-based browser, and doesn't know about any
> other cookie storage.
>
> I'm not sure how you'd go about fixing this, or if it's even possible
> for the JEP to fix it. The cookie handler object is created in
> MacOSXPlatformService, and there's no way to override what that class
> does. I suppose JEP could be really sneaky and implement its own
> version of com.sun.deploy.net.cookie.MacOSXCookieHandler and ensure
> that it gets loaded first. It needs to implement the
> com.sun.deploy.net.cookie.CookieHandler interface, which basically
> has a getCookieInfo and a setCookieInfo method.
>
> A better solution would be for the plugin to detect it is inside
> FireFox, and set up the underlying service implementations to use
> FireFox's libraries. File a bug for that, and we can talk about it.
> But for now, I think you could try the above suggestion.
>
> Scott
>
> ------------------
> Scott Kovatch
> Apple Computer
> Java Runtime Classes
> Cleveland Hts, OH
> email@hidden
>
> I am Scott Kovatch, and I approved this message.
>
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