Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx20.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wayne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JDK 1.8.0_20 and JDK 1.7.0_67 released References: <6dv7v9p4lrb9fv2h6g9kft59dhum8pnqn3@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <6dv7v9p4lrb9fv2h6g9kft59dhum8pnqn3@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 41 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 03:24:31 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:24:28 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 2128 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1119072669 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29753 On 8/19/2014 9:47 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:32:32 -0700, Roedy Green > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > >> changes at >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u20-relnotes-2257729.html#newft >> >> The most important is medium security is gone. > > They have changed the name of the directory where the JRE is > installed. It used to be: > C:\Program Files\Java\jre8 > now it is: > C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_20 > I believe that's how Sun originally had it, but changed it due to complaints that it made setting PATH and using auto-JRE updates incompatible. In lieu of medium security, you now get to white-list specific URLs. However, note you cannot (as of now) white-list any IPv6 addresses. Also, you need to white-list both the domain name and the IP address; white-listing one doesn't imply white-listing the other. For testing locally, you probably need to set the white-list (add to the "exception list") to include: http://localhost http://localhost.localdomain http://127.0.0.1 https://localhost https://localhost.localdomain https://127.0.0.1 file:/// (Note, you get warnings about using HTTP or FILE protocols.) -- Wayne