Annoying authentication window using IcedTea with Tor

[Jacob Wisor]

On 10/10/2015 at 10:32 AM flo.xfce at gmx-topmail.de wrote:
> Hey,
> I am running icedtea-web 1.6.1 in Firefox. Firefox is configured to
> connect via Tor. When I am running a Java Applet I always get
> authentication windows stating: "The web server at 127.0.0.1 is
> requesting authentication. It says 'SOCKS authentication' Username/Pasword"
> This message pops up more than frequently, sometimes every 10 seconds.
> I tried different settings for IcedTea: Use direct connection, use
> Browser settings, Manual settings; nothing changes the behaviour.
> Apart from the annoying part this behaviour sometimes crashes my system.
> In rare cases, when I raise another window in that moment when the
> message appears, all applications freeze.
> So how can I disable this behaviour?

I do not think this is related to IcedTea-Web. It looks more like a problem with 
the applet/application you are running. I have been using IcedTea-Web with Tor 
and never came across such an issue. What makes you think this would be related 
to IcedTea-Web? Remember, the proxy setting in IcedTea-Web are for IcedTea-Web 
only, that is for downloading applets and resources only. It has nothing to do 
with the sort of connections an applet/application may or may not be trying to 
establish.

Aside from that, Tor never asks for authentication, except AFAIK when 
specifically configured to do so for connections apart from 127.0.0.1.

Regards,

Jacob