I doubt Java per se has anything to do with the problem. Any web site
which uses servletS or *.jsp is running a Java based application server or
plugin. I use such sites all the time with no difficulties (and run one
behind the GNATBOX).

You should see (or can if you've not disabled the logging) the HTTP (or
other protocol) requests for the images in your log files. Start by
confirming the requests are being executed and allowed by the GNATBOX.

I can point you to an HTTP request sniffer tool which operates as a proxy
and allows for examination of HTTP traffic if your traffic is HTTP, then
you can look in detail at what is happening from your end. You may
discover that the image is being sent but has format issues.

Any web application is a composite of the webserver, possible application
server, and the application. It is possible that your vendor's application
makes some use of the IP address for security purposes. Perhaps expects
the cookie to match the IP and gets upset when multiple clients and hence
cookies arrive from the same IP address.

If the IP address is the issue, you might setup direct mapping between
external IPs and your internal machines (I'm to lazy to check the term ..
tunnel?), even just for an experiment.

You should get your vendor's customer support folks involved. Best if you
can get the server logs from their end to correlate with your logs and
investigation.

Dave Morris

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Louis DeRobertis wrote:

> Is there anyone who's had problems accessing outside sites that run Java
> applications?  We have a vendor that builds menus via a java application and
> occasionally the page does not display some of the images.  I do not have
> any filters that restrict outbound access on our GB1000 and do not see
> anything in the log files that would indicate that a connection failed to
> the remote site.  I've tried running the transparent proxy hoping that it
> would cache the images, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.  Bandwidth
> is fine, load average on the gnatbox is fine.  I'm only wondering if the
> vendor is doing something in the application that would prohibit the use of
> PAT, possibly using the outside IP address as some kind of cookie or
> something that will cause two users from the same IP address to have
> problems.  Does this make sense?
>
>
>
> TIA for any ideas..
>
>
>
> Lou
>
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