Java not recognized by Cisco Self-Provisioning Portal on Apple computers

Question

Have a Mac Mini running that had this problem under OSX 10.8 and is persisting in 10.9.  When this computers reaches the self-provisioning portal, after clicking submit on the MAC address registration, the following screen displays an erroneous error that Java isn't installed.
Have gone through updating Java from Apple (2013-005) as well as from Oracle/Java (1.7), and applied several variations of uninstalling and reinstalling Java, doesn't seem to make a difference.  From the top, the Mac Mini attaches to Wifi and the self-provisioning page appears with an authentication request.  User authenticates succesfully.  The next page displays the MAC address for the machine and a description field.  Upon filling out the description, the page is submitted.  The following page tha should complete the provisioning process, rather, displays an error that Java isn't installed and the user should go to java.com to complete the installation.  According to the Java.com, Java is installed. According to terminal (by executing the command "java -version"), Java is installed. Running other Java applications, like JDE, run perfectly well.  The self-provisioning page seems to be unaware of Java despite everything else.  Ideas?

Answer 1

Thanks. No dice. The instructions on that page also appear to be woefully out of date too. In Safari, on the preferences security tab, there is no checkbox for "Enable Java" (I think that is a Safari 6.0.4 thing on OS X 10.8 or thereabouts). In OS X 10.9 there's just the "allow plugins" checkbox and the "manage website settings" button. Assuming this is where it's at now, moving to the Java plugin in the list, they were already "allow". I went a step further and set it for the three websites listed (that include the provisioning portal domain) to "allow always". No luck. Then went to another step further and click "run in unsafe mode" for every item in the Java website list and again it made no difference. The self provisioning portal page still says that Java isn't installed :-(
For Firefox, the instructions on that page are out of date too. Under what I believe are the correct settings, the Java applet plug-in for 7.45 is set to "always activate". I assume this is the same thing as seeing the "disable" button in previous FF versions, indicating that the job applet plug-in is actively running.
The chrome instructions on the page are irrelevant because my OS X and hardware are 64-bit and so is Java but not chrome. Therefore Java doesn't run on chrome on this machine in the first place.
I don't know who's browser the self provisioning portal fires up since it fires up its own window, not a Firefox or Safari specific one. In windows for example the self-provisioning portal fires up a tab in IE. That actually makes it simpler to debug IMO.
Any more advice? Java seems to be running just fine for every thing else. What am I missing?
UPDATE (Just another thought)
Alternatively, could it be a the with WebKit? Or Cisco's implementation of WebKit (as far as whether any changes would have been required for OS X 10.9 in the way with kids is instantiated)? If or example the self provisioning portal is opening up its own "browser" by using the Safari webkit function (as opposed to opening a tab directly in Safari itself) could this be a bug in Safari itself, or a changed API that Cisco has failed to implement (considering the other incompatibilities various Cisco products have with OS X 10.9)? I just hope that the problem is something that I can fix with a workaround rather than waiting for a patch from either Apple or Cisco that may or may not come anytime soon? :-/