All, Having a problem that I've scoured the Internet for about a week, as well as looking through archives and not been able to find a solution/explanation.
Am using an applet and HttpClient for applet/servlet application. Have 11 clients, and 3 of them have a problem. Basically, the applet loads, but doesn't allow client/servlet communication (HttpClient times out). I am using port 80, so it shouldn't be a firewall issue. One of them called me today and said that he went into IE Advanced tab, turned off the proxy (and turned on the firewall) and everything was fine. I had reasoned through at some point that the proxy might be causing errors with stale data or perhaps because the applet is untrusted, it can only communicate with the original server which is not the proxy. However, when I downloaded Squid and ran through all sorts of tests (including setting the proxy in IE as Squid), I didn't have any problems. All my reading suggets that the JRE is supposed to grab the proxy setttings from the browser and that no additional code is necessary if it's an applet and not a application. One other thing I considered was putting the ip address in the connect string instead of the url (thinking that the proxy didn't do DNS lookup), but that doesn't amke any sense. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Matt
