[Bug 1147] wrongly assume DNS available even behind a proxy

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http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1147

--- Comment #3 from Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > update the jnlp and jars from it's original source.
> 
> Do you mean update the .icedtea/cache directory ?

Yes. (The paths maybe different, but the local disk cache is what I mean).

> > skips DNS resolution but still uses the most-up-to-date version of the
> > jars from the original location
> 
> I do not understand why my patch would disable the update of the jars. My
> understanding was that updating or not updating was decided by the
> JNLPClassLoader and CachedJarFileCallback classes.
> 
> Do you mean that if there is no <offline-allowed/> the application should
> not be ran even if it's available in the cache directory ?

Yes. As far as I understand, this is the purpose behind <offline-allowed/> in
the first place.

> If yes, do you
> agree that this behaviour should be implemented in JNLPClassLoader and not
> in Launcher ?

JNLPClassLoader is already doing too much and is too complex, I think. But I
agree that this functionality does not belong in Launcher either.

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