Mindterm 2.2 on OS X

[Kelly Kane]

Basically i see it as this, the webbrowser opens the mindterm_ie.cab, 
and sees that it beeds all these .class files. For some reason it 
doesn't look *inside* the archive, but on the webserver. So it starts 
at the root (www/computing/mindterm/ie in our case) for the rest of 
the files. It's odd, but it worked. I figured this out by checking 
the apache error log and noticing a ton of 404's whenever I tried to 
load mindterm. This solution works over broadband and greater 
connections, because the bandwidth isn't so limited, however over 
dialup it can take upwards of 5 minutes to load mindterm.

Kelly

At 4:06 PM -0400 9/12/02, David Botsch wrote:
>So, on your web server, are the mindterm.cab directories instead of 
>files? I am not seeing how the web browser actually fetches the 
>individual files since the only code in your page is an applet 
>archive="mindterm_ie.cab".
>
>Thanks!
>
>On 2002.09.12 15:48 Kelly Kane wrote:
>>hi!
>>
>>	This is funny, i normally have been ignoring the list, but i 
>>saw something about 2.2/OS X and figured "what the heck" i'll have 
>>a look see, and it's my install of Mindterm! Anyways,
>>
>>	Why ours works? I have extracted the JAR and CAB files for 
>>the IE and netscape versions respectively. When you request that 
>>page, it downloads the jar/cab file, then each file within the 
>>compressed archive as a decompressed file. There are a zillion 
>>files in there, try it out over a slower connection, in netscape, 
>>and you can see each file come down. Take a look at our usage logs 
>>at http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/summary_report.html, and search 
>>for "mindterm". You will see the directory structure i had to setup 
>>to get this to work. It's one big hack, but it works for us, and it 
>>works for you. :)
>>
>>  By the way, where did you find our install? Google?
>>
>>Kelly
>>
>>At 12:35 PM -0400 9/12/02, David Botsch wrote:
>>>I've purhcased, downloaded and installed Mindterm 2.2.
>>>
>>>It works fine under Windows and under UNIX. Mac OS X.1.5 is a 
>>>different story.
>>>
>>>Both IE and Mozilla give me: Start: applet not initialized after 
>>>putting up the standard grant/deny dialogues for java applets. To 
>>>further the mystery, I can run the java applet locatated at 
>>>http://CHS.CUSD.Claremont.Edu/www/computing/mindterm/ in IE.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure what the difference between there and here is.
>>>
>>>If you want a look, our test mindterm pages are at:
>>>http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/test/mindterm for Netscape
>>>and http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/test/mindterm/mindterm-ie.html for IE
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>--
>>>********************************
>>>David William Botsch
>>>Consultant/Advisor II
>>>CCMR Computing Facility
>>>dwb7@ccmr.cornell.edu
>>>********************************
>>
>>
>>--
>>Kelly Kane
>>Claremont Unified School District
>
>--
>********************************
>David William Botsch
>Consultant/Advisor II
>CCMR Computing Facility
>dwb7@ccmr.cornell.edu
>********************************


-- 
Kelly Kane
Claremont Unified School District