I'm absolutely trying to avoid reinstalling Lion, but that's the last option I can think of. To determine the current JRE version installed on your system, see Determining the JRE Version Installed on macOS. How can I fix this problem? After trying tons of stuff and searching for everything I can think of, I'm at the end of my line here. Again: I can't recreate any of these problems when I'm not using proxies, and they go away in instances when I can clearly specify them for specific applications (Firefox, Windows). So, all of the above leads me to believe that the problem is based on programs (Firefox, Fusion, Java) being unable to access the system-wide proxy settings. Problem was present in this account as well.
According to the comments in this file, even though this is set to "false," the setting will be ignored by OS X. I checked the Java net.properties file to make sure that the "" setting wasn't affecting me.Windows seemed to pull the appropriate settings from OS X via VMware Fusion. Please note that I never had to set the proxy settings manually before.
Manual proxy settings make all problems go away: Java works, and pages load. In Windows, the situation with IE9 is similar to #8 above.If I specify Firefox's proxy settings manually, then Firefox both (i) loads http addresses correctly (via the proxy) and Java applets load correctly too. Note that Chrome and Safari both seem to obey the system-wide proxy settings. Firefox works fine at home, but it doesn't load any http sites via proxies at work (it does load simple hostnames on our network, though).They show up in the Terminal via sudo scutil -proxy. This was all done in the Network preferences panel, and the settings all show up in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ist.
I have no problems at home, where I don't use a proxy! This is only a problem at work, where I've configured proxies for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and SOCKS with Automatic Proxy Configuration selected. Now, for why this seems to be a proxy issue.
Windows VM: VMware Fusion 4.1.1, Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, IE 9.0.4, Java 1.6.0_30, and Processing 1.5.1 I came across this problem while trying (and failing) to run Processing-generated Java applets in Safari. I can work around this by manually configuring a proxy with no host name or port in the Eclipse preferences, but this doesn't seem to stick and the zombie system proxy eventually rises from the dead.I'm stuck on what appears to be an issue with the accessibility of system proxy settings by other programs. This is what I see in the Eclipse configuration details: http.proxyHost=zombie
I can find no direct reference to this proxy anywhere on my system, have deleted and reinstalled Eclipse, have monitored the network traffic to rule out any proxy auto configuration, and yet this proxy configuration persists on the Mac OSX JVM. However, now whenever I use Eclipse the Java HTTP proxy system properties seem to be 'automagically' set to use my now defunct HTTP proxy. I recently changed network and removed all my HTTP proxy settings from the System Preferences / Networking panel on OSX (Leopard).