maybe silly quesiton

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Thu Jul 15 16:52:51 PDT 2004


On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:45:02PM -0500, John wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:06:46PM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:11:17PM -0500, John wrote:
> > > What should be done for web apps that want 1.4.1(_p2) pluggin installed?
> > > Can i just fool the remote app by somehow getting mozilla to say it has it
> > > installed and map it to 1.4.2 (fbsd bins native)?
> > 
> > The 1.4.2 plugin should satisfy any application that wants any version from
> > 1.1 through 1.4.2.
> > 
> > See the Mozilla Help -> About plugins information.
> 
> Well is looks like what the java app is having issues with is this..
> 
> This is what it wants..
> application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.4.1_p2
> which seems silly...

Ahh, so it actually wants a specific version of the plugin rather than
a plugin which supports 1.4.1.

You'll need to look at the plugin code and find out how it decides the
jpi-version to report and modify it to report 1.4.1_p2 it sounds like.

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