NTLM on Mac OS X

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to load a page with a Java applet in it on a Mac running OS X 10.5.4. The Mac is running J2SE 5.0. I tried using Firefox 3.0 and Safari 3.1.2
The website is hosted on IIS on a Windows PC, and it uses NTLM for authentication. As soon as the Mac tries to load the Java applet, it gets a 401 (Access Denied) with a NTLM negotiation request in it. This happens in a lot of pages and in any other case results in the browser sending a new GET request with NTLM authentication. The JRE (1.5.0_13) doesn't respond to this 401 though, it just stops loading the applet. It then shows an authentication dialog, but even filling in the proper authentication here doesn't work. In some cases in Firefox 3 the authentication dialog even freezes the browser.
Here's what the Java console shows:
MRJ Plugin for Mac OS X v1.0.1
[starting up Java Applet Security @ Mon Jul 14 12:09:41 CEST 2008]
basic: Referencing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@d0d45b, refcount=1
basic: Loading applet/u2026
basic: Initializing applet/u2026
basic: Referencing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@d0d45b, refcount=2
basic: Releasing classloader: sun.plugin.ClassLoaderInfo@d0d45b, refcount=1
basic: httpCompression = true
network: Connecting http://10.47.26.91/tms/Tandberg/Tms/UI/Monitoring/conferencecontrol.jar with proxy=DIRECT
network: Connecting http://10.47.26.91/tms/styles/Default/icons/java.gif with proxy=DIRECT
network: Searching for authentication for protocol=http, siteName="10.47.26.91", port = 80, scheme=ntlm, realm=, requestingURL="http://10.47.26.91/tms/styles/Default/icons/java.gif, isProxy = no
network: None found
network: Firewall authentication: site=/10.47.26.91:80, protocol=http, prompt=, scheme=ntlm
basic: User selected: 0{code}
This is the tag it's trying to load the applet from:
{code}<object name='cccApplet' id='cccApplet' classid='clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93' style='position: relative; top: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%;' codebase='https://java.sun.com/update/1.6.0/jinstall-6-windows-i586.cab' viewastext><param name='scriptable' value='true' /><param name='code' value='no.tandberg.tms.ccc.gui.overview.CCCApplet.class' /><param name='image' value='/tms/styles/Default/icons/java.gif' /><param name='codebase' value='/tms/Tandberg/Tms/UI/Monitoring' /><param name ='archive' value='conferencecontrol.jar, graph.jar, common.jar' /><param name ='language' value='en-US' /><param name ='locale' value='en-GB' /><param name ='debug' value='true' /><param name ='show' value='' /><param name ='conferenceId' value='' /><param name ='canApprove' value='True' /><param name ='canUpdateAll' value='True' /><param name ='canUpdateOwn' value='True' /><comment><embed type='application/x-java-applet' style='position: relative; top: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%;' scriptable='true' code='no.tandberg.tms.ccc.gui.overview.CCCApplet.class' image='/tms/styles/Default/icons/java.gif'' codebase='/tms/Tandberg/Tms/UI/Monitoring' archive='conferencecontrol.jar, graph.jar, common.jar' language='en-US' locale='en-GB' debug='true'  show=''  conferenceId=''  canApprove='True'  canUpdateAll='True'  canUpdateOwn='True' ></embed></comment></object>{code}
Are there known problems with the JRE and NTLM on Mac OS X? I can't get the applet to load while NTLM is turned on in the web 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Answer 1

Hello WouterLammers,
The JRE that that is used on Mac is produced by Apple, they build and create Java SE from Sun's source. Are you able to reproduce this error with [Sun's Java SE 6|http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp|http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp]?
-Roger