App Inventor: Java Issue

[Gongalong]

Hi folks,

 

After not having a great deal of luck with YouSrc our ICT department are looking at using MIT's App Inventor.

 

It isn't starting well, because App Inventor launches a Java application for editing code blocks. This works fine on a PC with directly connected Internet (no complex firewalls etc.), but does not work on our domain PCs. I have tried configuring Java via control panel to look at the proxy server, but no change in behaviour.

 

Has anyone come across App Inventor and used it successfully on a school network, and did you have to do anything to configure it?

 

TIA

[truebluesteve]

Same problem here....

[Gongalong]

We've narrowed it down to our firewall (Smoothwall). Currently waiting for their secondline support to look at it.

 

Oddly the Smoothwall shows a loopback (127.0.0.1) being "forbidden", but the firstline tech didn't know how to resolve it.

[Benner900]

Have you ruled out this setting in Group Policy:

 

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We had the same problelm where the blocks editor wouldn't open. If you have Command Prompt disabled you need to have command prompt script processing set as "No"

 

Ben

[Gongalong]

Not specifically ruled out, but on one of our Admin machines Blocks Editor does exactly the same thing. As soon as I eliminate the firewall (route through the upstream proxy) it opens without issue.

[Gongalong]

Just to update, after speaking to Smoothwall support I had to add localhost (127.0.0.1) to our Web Proxy exceptions, this stopped it trying to go through the Smoothwall it seems and it worked.

 

The problem now is we don't have an upstream proxy any more, and now this seems to be broken again.