Upgrade ImageJ Not working behind a firewall [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Goldsmith, Noel]

Hi,
I cannot upgrade ImageJ using the
"Update ImageJ" menu item under the help menu. And I know that under the
Options menu there is an item "Proxy settings".
I can report that I have tried to use this many times and failed.
From locations which are not behind our firewall it works like a dream

But at work, I do the following.
Edit>Options>Proxy settings and insert the correct address for the proxy and
the user name and passwords, and then select Help>Update ImageJ
I get the dialog which reads.
Unable to connect to http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij. You may need to use the
Edi>Options>Proxy Settings command to configure ImageJ to use a proxy
server.
Can anyone suggest an improvement, or an alternative.

I can use a web browser to connect to the ImageJ web site, and notice that
to get a connection to such an external web site I need to use my user name
and password at least once  to get a connection. I believe we use NTLM as
part of our security here, and I am using a Mac running Mac OSX 10.5.8
Thank You
Noel


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[dscho]

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Goldsmith, Noel wrote:

> I cannot upgrade ImageJ using the "Update ImageJ" menu item under the
> help menu. And I know that under the Options menu there is an item
> "Proxy settings". I can report that I have tried to use this many times
> and failed. From locations which are not behind our firewall it works
> like a dream
>
> But at work, I do the following. Edit>Options>Proxy settings and insert
> the correct address for the proxy and the user name and passwords, and
> then select Help>Update ImageJ I get the dialog which reads. Unable to
> connect to http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij. You may need to use the
> Edi>Options>Proxy Settings command to configure ImageJ to use a proxy
> server. Can anyone suggest an improvement, or an alternative.

It _might_ be solvable by setting the Java property
"java.net.useSystemProxies" to "true".

You can run this little macro to do so:

        call("java.lang.System.setProperty", "java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");

Ciao,
Johannes