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Asked: 2026-06-14T21:44:56+00:00

The Java 1.7 Plugin insists on attempting to download the pack.gz for the archive

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The Java 1.7 Plugin insists on attempting to download the pack.gz for the archive file specified. E.g. for an applet tag like this:

<applet codebase="." code="com.whatever.Something" archive="applet/SomethingWhatever.jar" mayscript="true">
<param name="someKindOfSettingA" value="1234">
</applet>

We end up with the HTTP server getting requests for:

applet/SomethingWhatever.jar.pack.gz

I realize we can solve this by providing a pack.gz and this would be beneficial. But for now I just want to suppress the extra requests. Is there a way to do this via an applet tag or something?

We tried this:

<PARAM NAME="java_arguments" VALUE="-Djnlp.packEnabled=false"/>

based on the obvious variation of the instructions here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/tools/pack200.html . But that made no difference.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a JRE bug:

    See https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?bug_id=8000291

    Regards
    Kamil

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