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sun.net.www.protocol.http.NTLMAuthentication.setHeaders Can’t get a java program to talk through a squid proxy

Uncaught error fetching image:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.NTLMAuthentication.setHeaders(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.doTunneling(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.image.URLImageSource.getDecoder(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.image.InputStreamImageSource.doFetch(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.fetchloop(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(Unknown Source)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.NTLMAuthentication.setHeaders(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.doTunneling(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

As per this post http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-users@squid-cache.org/msg49361.html

added the following to
squid.conf

    acl Java browser Java/1.4 Java/1.5 Java/1.6
    http_access allow Java 

FYI

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> It's a workaround, allowing Java clients access without the need to
> authenticateto the proxy.

which means that whoever will put "Java/1.4" into browser's user
identification string, will be allowed to use proxy without authentication

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