Java? Ja va. Sorta.

Marc de Groot (marc@immersive.com)
Sat, 9 Dec 1995 10:36:47 -0800


After a fairly substantial expenditure of effort,
I discovered why I had had trouble executing the "Hello
World" applet with Netscape Navigator 2.0b3 (for 32-bit Windows.)

It turns out that Navigator's implementation of Java will not execute
an applet from an HTML page that is accessed with a type specifier
other than ghttp:".

Since HTML files on one's local disk are typically accessed with
the "file:" type specifier, applets will not execute.

The solution was to find and install an http server on my computer,
and to read the files on the local disk via a network connection to the
server.

Considering the inelegance of the solution and the obscurity of the peoblem,
I believe this story warrants repeating to anyone who is about to learn Java.

"My Java is so good, it's worth the ulcer. Is yours?" :-)

^M

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