Plugin 1.4 on Solaris with Netscape 6.01 not working :(

[Tony Swain]

Deeps wrote:

> Hi ,
> I have just installed the jre1.4 beta 2 on my sun box, also made the link in
> the plugins folder of netscape 6 to point to the jre1.4 plugin oji file &
> also set the NPX_PLUGIN_PATH to point to javaplugin140.so, but no success,
> everytime I load an applet the browser ask me to install the plugin
> !....what's going wrong, has anybody tried it out ?
>
> -Deep

Hello,
far beit for me to comment on the state of the OJI,
but I think you want JDK 1.31 and not 1.4.
1.4 still uses the DSA/Sha1 security database
built into Internet Explorer on IE in
Windows and I suspect this cert type will not be valid
for NS6 as it requires a RSA certificate. Then again I don't
have a Sun to test this 100%.
I would try JRE/Plugin 1.31 but there is this caveat to it.
Once you install 1.31, 1.4 can malfunction and
I have found I actually have to delete and reinstall
the whole JDK/JVM to fix the issue. I am waiting
for the final release of 1.4 before I switch form DSA.
DSA works with JDK14 BTW but not in NS 6

Good Luck!
Sincerely:

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Tony Swain
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