I have a storage box admin page that's supposed to open with Java Web Start. However, on all browsers on my MacBook, this doesn't happen and instead I just get a html page saved with contents: "v6.3.1a Web Tools 10.1.18.222 ".
Looking at the javascript code of the page, I see it is trying to detect if correct Java Web Start is installed:
function webstartVersionCheck(versionString) {
// Mozilla may not recognize new plugins without this refresh
navigator.plugins.refresh(true);
// First, determine if Web Start is available
if **(navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-java-jnlp-file'])** {
// Next, check for appropriate version family
for (var i = 0; i < navigator.mimeTypes.length; ++i) {
pluginType = navigator.mimeTypes[i].type;
if (pluginType == "application/x-java-applet;version=" + versionString) {
return true;
}
}
}
return false;
}
Which is called here:
function writeMozillaData(page) {
versionCheck = webstartVersionCheck("1.5");
if (!versionCheck) {
var pluginPage = "http://jdl.sun.com/webapps/getjava/BrowserRedirect?locale=en&host=java.com";
document.write("The version of Java plugin needed to run the application is not installed. The page from where the plugin can be downloaded will be opened in a new window. If not, please click here: <a href=" + pluginPage + ">Download correct Java version.</a>");
window.open(pluginPage, "needdownload");
} else {
window.location = page;
}
}
I put in an alert in the mimeTypes and notice that there is no mimeType of 'application/x-java-jnlp-file' which shows up in navigator.
Questions:
- Is this what is causing the browser to interpret the content as just text/html and save the html?
- How can I force the launch of Java Web Start here?
I do have firefox settings indicating that jnlp get handled by Java Web Start application, hence I suspect the browser is not interpreting the page as jnlp at all to begin with.
