I am very new to SM and I am looking for a browser.
I've been very impressed with the quality of responses on this forum and
I hope you can spare the time to help or point me to the proper place
for answers.
We have a customer who is using a web app our company created years ago
and our goal is to keep them running until we can deliver a replacement
that employs more current and secure technologies.
The trouble is, the web app was designed around IE at the time (client's
requirement) and uses JSP, Hibernate, and a GlassFish server, and so on.
Microsoft and others have been making noise about dropping support for
the following:
- Java Applets
- SHA1 base certificates
- SSL3, TLS1.0, TLS1.1 required for the obsolete GlassFish server are
also on the radar
- IE itself will go away at some point given their investment in Edge
There is no clear road map for when support for theses things will go
away. There is the vulnerability for our client that, at any time, there
may be a Windows security update that will kill the client's app dead
before we can deploy a replacement. In fact, we've already had an issue
with an IE security update that affected HTTPS and we have to keep
uninstalling it.
It was proposed that we could use an open source browser which we could
manage, prevent it from getting updated and use it exclusively with the
application.
This isn't without challenges as it would need to be able to render the
current website properly (not really an issue imo as its a pretty
rudimentary HTML 4 based UI) or without too many changes and run the
Java applet currently stuck at java 1.6.
We may try to go to Jave 8Uxx on the workstation, but that too bears its
own complications as many older applets and supporting JARs don't play
nicely enough with it.
The browser we're looking for must have it's own https implementation
and not rely on Windows schannel dll othewise it will get killed by
windows updates too just like IE.
If you got this far, I tip my hat to you, and I am grateful for your
forbearance.
Thank you.
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