Re: Bug: openURL on MS Windows with default browser IE

Posted by Jon Harman on Feb 15, 2007; 4:51pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Bug-openURL-on-MS-Windows-with-default-browser-IE-tp3699891p3699898.html

Hi,

Very curious.  I had given up on getting IE7 to run my ImageJ applet.  
Whenever I attempted it (starting from the shortcut on the desktop) I
got a java error ("The Java runtime environment cannot be loaded").  
When I saw the posts yesterday I gave the rundll32 command a try, and it
works!  Does anyone know what the difference is?  I want my applet to be
accessible to IE7 users and want to be able to tell them how to fix any
problems.

Thanks for any help,
Jon

Curtis Rueden wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On Windows XP with IE7, I could not duplicate the problem. It also
> works fine with Firefox. In addition, Microsoft's solution requires
> Microsoft-specific classes (com.ms.*) available only to Visual J++
> (not Sun's JVM). So Microsoft's official solution is proprietary (big
> surprise). So I would suggest ImageJ stick with the rundll32 solution.
>
> -Curtis
>
> On 2/14/07, Jeremy Winston <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Jeremy Winston wrote:
>> > Hi Folks,
>> >      It seems that the approach taken by the openURL method
>> > of BrowserLauncher for MS Windows to open the default web
>> > browser to a URL ending in .htm or .html when the default
>> > browser is IE is deprecated (per MS).
>>
>> Hrmmm.  Even though MS says it's deprecated, the problem
>> doesn't appear to exist with XP running IE7, nor, strangely,
>> with NT4 running IE 6.
>>
>> Could folks running a different combination of MS OS and
>> IE versions, check to see if running
>>
>> rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
>> http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/notes.html
>>
>> at the command line (or Run box) generates an error, and
>> report back their findings?
>>
>> TIA,
>> -Jeremy
>>
>