OpenJDK : cannot load an applet if archive is not a .jar

[®om]

On the website, the applet cannot be loaded using OpenJDK :
http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux/article/2001/01/22/les-mots-croises-de-philippe-dupuis_139043_3280.html

I think the problem comes from the website, which declares the archive as a .zip instead of a .jar (which is quite strange) :
<applet codebase="http://www.lemonde.fr/motscroises/" archive="crossword.zip" code="Crossword.class" height="490" width="475">

However, it appears that sun-java can run it (I asked someone to test on WinXP), so I think this special case could be handled in openjdk (icedtea6-plugin).

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

On my computer openjdk seems to try start the applet, in the status bar is:
Starting applet...
but nothing happens.
Do you know if there is a java console, where I can see what happens?

[®om (rom1v)]

They changed the extension (.jar instead of .zip), but it doesn't resolve the problem…

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please recheck with karmic, or with updated openjdk packages from
https://edge.launchpad.net/~openjdk/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=jaunty

leave your browser, open a terminal, and run from the command line:

ICEDTEAPLUGIN_DEBUG= firefox

and attach the log for your session visiting this site.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

works for me with 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3