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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: BasicService.showDocument(...) returns false
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:53:22 -0000 (UTC)
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Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
> On client's machines, the method BasicService.showDocument(java.net.URL)
> returns false (and shows no effect at all), while on our own machines it
> returns true (and does open the requested page).

Found the solution...

The URL on client's machines contained a tilde (~) character, that
we just needed to replace by %7E.  The url we tried "at home" did not
have a tilde-char, thus it worked right-away.

Apparently, the venerable Java 6 didn't yet care about it, but Java 8 does.