Hi, just a word of caution for Java WebStart users:

it looks to me like Pound-1.7 cannot be used in front of Java WebStart.
This seems to be an issue with WebStart, though, not with Pound.
WebStart uses HTTP to load a JNLP XML file, then loads and executes the Java
classes described in the JNLP file.

Has anyone experienced this before?

My initial tests show that WebStart works with Apache httpd/mod_jk/Tomcat as
well as with a direct connection to Tomcat (8080), but not when I use Pound
instead of Apache/mod_jk. Normal HTML pages are served all right through
Pound. WebStart loads the JNLP file, then simply stops requesting data and
plays funny tricks with its progress bar.

[I just wanted to let you know, I don't see that anything is wrong with
Pound here.]

Regards,
Matthias

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 11:23, Matthias Gärtner wrote:[...]

This should most definitely NOT happen - Pound does not care (or even
know) about what is it you serve. I would be very interested to see a
trace of the transactions between Pound and Tomcat so we can try and fix
this.[...]

Are you certain that the mime-type for the .jnlp is still set
correctly in this configuration?  I can't see how Pound would
have anything to do with this problem.  At the very least, an
access log from the backend server would be helpful, or definitely
a network trace.

-jason

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:23:31AM +0100, Matthias Gärtner wrote:[...]
[...]

Hello again,

this is indeed not a Pound problem.
Mime Type is correct. WebStart starts and acts upon the JNLP File. But, no
further request are generated. Not a single packet leaves my machine after
the JNLP file has been loaded (!). So it can't be a Pound problem as long as
the JNLP download was terminated properly.

I will further check on this over the weekend and let you know.

Regards,
Matthias

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