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Java LiveConnect's cryptography has broken our extension
In the Mozilla 1.9 branch (Firefox 3), Java LiveConnect is not working correctly. When I try to decrypt something using the AES or RSA algorithms from the javax.crypto library, I get an incorrect result. I've had the bug filed for a month along with a simple attachment that tests the problem, but nobody has even confirmed that this problem exists. I have also tried the LiveConnect mailing list and IRC.
This is a big problem for me because it causes a big problem for our plugin users: in Firefox 3, users can't access their local passwords. The workarounds we have come up with are all painful for the user. What do I need to do to get the right person's attention?
This is a big problem for me because it causes a big problem for our plugin users: in Firefox 3, users can't access their local passwords. The workarounds we have come up with are all painful for the user. What do I need to do to get the right person's attention?
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Live Connect is DEAD people. It's DEAD. Get over it. If your favorite plugin uses LC in 2008 then they need to join the 21st century. Sun is one of the companies agreeing to use the new NPRuntime api.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/...
Mozilla, Adobe, Apple, Opera, and Sun are all on board. You should be too.
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Inappropriate?The bug has now been confirmed. Hopefully you'll catch the bugmail and help find when it happened.1 Comment Add a comment
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Inappropriate?In related news, there is a bounty on solving another LiveConnect issue, and LiveConnect is going away in Firefox 3.1 (ref, see comment 4 for reasoning).
There is a small, small, small chance that a fix may be put in later versions of Firefox 3.0, and a much smaller (there's only a 6 month timeframe to do it) chance that it'll appear in a later version of Firefox 2.0.2 Comments Add a comment
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Oh dear. Thanks for the heads up.
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Care to join a "save LiveConnect" campaign? By that I mean make some kind of pledged amount toward hiring someone to save it? We might be able to find others in the same position...
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Inappropriate?Live Connect is DEAD people. It's DEAD. Get over it. If your favorite plugin uses LC in 2008 then they need to join the 21st century. Sun is one of the companies agreeing to use the new NPRuntime api.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/...
Mozilla, Adobe, Apple, Opera, and Sun are all on board. You should be too.
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Inappropriate?Would one simple working example be too much to ask? I've interested in scripting Java, if that is still possible and which is what LiveConnect did, not making a plugin. I don't see any tutorials about this, besides the link you gave which uses some kind of C API description that isn't at all clear to me how it can be used (yes, I get that you can call methods on the embed/object, but what MIME type for Java ("application/x-java-applet") and how do you access all of those NPN_ things. Just one very small working example to go on? And please don't reply with some kind of insult--I'm sorry I wasn't born understanding C or whatever, just trying to update my own Firefox extension to access the Java JARs I had been accessing before. Thank you.
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Inappropriate?I didn't mean to sound insulting, it's just that a little research on the topics would have revealed that LiveConecnt is dying for a reason, not just to annoy people, and that there are BETTER replacements for LC already in place.
Now, as for examples, I Can't say I know of any off hand, however there are many pages on the net that script with Flash, so that'd be a good thing to look into as a demo, how to script with Flash. The underlying ideas would still carry over to Java. -
Inappropriate?Ok, finally got something...
From https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/ (note it is a recent document referring to FF 3 and such).
"New LiveConnect Specification
"The bridge between the Java and JavaScript programming languages, known informally as LiveConnect, has been reimplemented. The new implementation is backward-compatible and features improved reliability, performance and cross-browser portability, for both Java calling JavaScript as well as JavaScript calling Java. Formerly Mozilla-specific LiveConnect functionality, such as the ability to call static Java methods, instantiate new Java objects and reference third-party packages from JavaScript, is now available in all browsers.
"The new LiveConnect specification is forthcoming."
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