Any known bugs autodetecting proxy settings?

[skadam]

I'm not sure where else to post this. This question is from a midsize
k-12 school district in Oregon. Are there any known bugs with the 1.5.0
Java VM autodetecting the browser proxy settings? This is the default
setting when installed on a workstation, and it does not work correctly
on a firewalled network with only proxy internet access. Symptoms are
non-functional web page embedded java applets, such as at
www.coolmath4kids.com --go to math games, concentration. The work
around is to either manually specify the proxy settings in the java
console, or to downgrade to 1.4.2.

The client is Windows XP Pro SP2 with IE 6.x. The browser is configured
to use IE's autodetect, which picks up the DNS entry for the
wpad.domain server and downloads a simple javascript proxy.pac file.

Thanks,

Adam

 

[Roedy Green]

Are there any known bugs with the 1.5.0
Java VM autodetecting the browser proxy settings?

For some background information on manually setting up the proxy see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/proxy.html

However, I don't know how you do it with IE. Where do you set system
properties for IE?