http://www.placenet.org/benoit/index.php/ fr Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:18 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://www.placenet.org/benoit/index.php/post/2008/05/20/Java-WTF urn:md5:a6e09b65ca7a1eeca5b1d9cb190e7155 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:01:00 +0200 Benoît Dejean downloadjavaproxy <p>I tried to download a propriertary JDK6, worst download experience ever ... clicked download which gave me a JNLP file (???). I first thought it was a bug, so i reloaded the page. No, it's the &quot;Tvo Download Manager&quot;. You need to read the &quot;download&quot; button's tooltip to understand what was going on. <br /></p> <p>This started a 3 tab download manager:</p> <ol> <li>Download: you configure where the file is to be downloaded, the number of retries, the logfile size (???), whether it has to unzip or not, etc</li> <li>Proxies: HTTP and FTP proxies configuration. I failed to enter any valid proxy there (it always claimed the proxy was invalid). At first this &quot;tool&quot; must have inherited browser settings.</li> <li>Authentication: totally failed to configure this tab with host authentication list, etc</li> </ol> <p>You want to dowload a zip and you end up with a bloated java downloader for HTTP downloading which doesn't handle transparent proxy configuration and authentification. So i haven't downloaded anything and i'm going to stay as far as possible from this unethical crap. (If that zip was to be downloaded bia bittorrent, i would have understood the need for a downloader.) <br /></p> <p><strong>WTF</strong> <br /></p> <p>PS: I was a proxy admin in my previous job.</p>