Java applet not loading on Java8/HTTPS

Question

I hava Java applet which will not run when using HTTPS. All works fine when testing on localhost. Also everything is working using a test server using only HTTP. In production m

Answer 1

I don't have an answer, but just wanted to provide more information.

I'm seeing the same thing where it tries to use http with port 443 which obviously won't work. Here the exception I get is different from yours: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

I was seeing this behavior from a java applet and also from a java webstart program.

The user is not using any proxy server.

We tested Java 8 Update 25 on our own system here and it works fine. The user that had this issue has a Symantec anti-virus and firewall product installed. As far as I could tell it was not blocking anything.

We installed Java 7 Update 71 and then it started working.