Hi Hussein Are there equivalent commands for the mac (osx tiger) or will I have to run this on a windows machine?
Cheers Steve > From: Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr> > Organization: Pixware > Reply-To: "xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com" <xmleditor-support at > xmlmind.com> > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:55:15 +0200 > To: "Tongue, Steve" <Steve.Tongue at openpolytechnic.ac.nz> > Cc: "xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com" <xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com> > Subject: Re: [XXE] Testing Url exist > > Tongue, Steve wrote: >> Thanks for the example. When I use it in a menu command, a dialog box pops >> up asking for my user name and password for my corporate proxy server. At >> this point XMLMind freezes and the only thing I can do is force quit. > > ``XMLmind XML Editor freezes'' means that an Exception was thrown. > > Please try to reproduce the problem with a console and send me what is > printed in the console when XXE freezes. > > [1] Edit XXE_install_dir/bin/xxe.jstart using an UTF-8 capable text > editor (e.g. Windows 2000/XP notepad). > > [2] Replace "start jre\bin\javaw.exe" by "start jre\bin\java.exe". > > [3] Save this file using the UTF-8 encoding and start XXE by as usual. > > > > >> Using the F2 key, I get the dialog box where I can enter my name etc and >> the programme carries on as you would expect. I assume the username and >> password are then cached because I can then use the menu command. > > For now, we recommend to use *system properties* to specify these proxy > settings. For this, to our knowledge, Java 1.4.2+ is required. > > (Specifying proxy settings using XXE's Options dialog box is a feature > which will almost certainly be implemented in the near future.) > > [1] Edit XXE_install_dir/bin/xxe.jstart using an UTF-8 text editor (e.g. > Windows 2000/XP notepad). > > [2] After line: > --- > -DXXE_ADDON_PATH="%XXE_ADDON_PATH%" > --- > add something similar to these lines (the reference is found in: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html): > --- > -DsocksProxyHost=socks.acme.com > -DsocksProxyPort=1080 > -Djava.net.socks.username=foo > -Djava.net.socks.password=bar > --- > > [3] Save this file using the UTF-8 encoding and start XXE by as usual. > > By doing this, I'm sure all will run smoothly. >

