Andy,

Andy Willis wrote:
> I understood, it was just that I was hoping that it didn't as the 
> appletviewer gave me the error that the protocol https was not 
> recognized.  I was hoping that when it was supported it would work but 
> it must be related to the login and not the https.  Guess I'll have to 
> find a windoze machine to use.

I think you and Mike were talking about two different problems. I am 
almost positive that Java 1.3 does not include an SSL library, and this 
is the reason why the applet viewer cannot connect to https URLs. 
However, when using Java 1.3 in the context of Mozilla, the HTTPS 
connectivity is provided by the browser, so the applets are loaded over 
HTTPS by the browser, then run by the Java 1.3 plug-in. It sounds like 
there were some bugs in the JVM that only occurred if the applets were 
loaded from HTTPS URLs, which were in the latest JVM patch. But this 
alone won't enable you to connect over secure URLs with the standalone 
applet viewer, however. You would need to have a Java SSL library as 
well as an applet viewer problem capable of using it.

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