Java Issue: First time laucning

[Vogar 12]

Hey folks, Been a long time and I'm apparently out of touch with fixing these issues as I once was.

 

OS: Windows 10 64bit

Java: Version 8 Update 60

 

Description:

Fresh windows 10 install, clicked on the play button on the main page to download the client. Gotthe wurmclient.jnlp saved to the hard drive and the below pops up as an error when I go to run the application. Tried both the stable and unstable versions. Did a bit of research on the forums here but haven't found this specific error or am mildly blind as it's late in the night.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Error: Unable to load resource: http://www.wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp

 

Exception:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource:

http://www.wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.downloadResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

Wrapped Exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException

at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.access$200(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$9.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivilegedWithCombiner(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.HttpUtils.followRedirects(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequestEX(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.downloadResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.cache.ResourceProviderImpl.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.updateFinalLaunchDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[Saroman 1,341]

Try switching network settings to Direct connection in the Java Control Panel maybe.

[Brash_Endeavors 4,735]

Are you running through a military or corporate network?

Do you know whether you have a security program named Watchguard installed?

In this thread  with similar error message   he was running the game from a military barracks and the military network had suddenly disallowed some java functions on the network:

http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/124958-game-will-not-launch/

There are also some links there from similar issues involving the WATCHGUARD security software

 

 

 

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Maybe one of the devs can also check whether it is the same issue as here: 

http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/91599-cant-install-wurm/

The guy reported it helped to launch using this as the shortcut:

javaws -J-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true http://www.wurmonline.com/client/wurmclient.jnlp

This next thread also reported that the same issue was fixed using the same flag preferIPv4Stack=true

http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/120290-cant-start-the-game/

 

Is this a work computer that uses  remote access software of any sort?

This post (NON-WURM) discusses  disabling all the ipv6 on the network device

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17648392/why-do-i-need-java-net-preferipv4stack-true-only-on-some-windows-7-systems

 

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I am way over my head so I probably cannot help, it might need someone with networking savvy 

 

Hopefully Saroman's solution will turn out to be the fix

Edited August 26, 2015 by Brash_Endeavors

[Vogar 12]

Oddly enough when I was in the military camp I never had a problem for numerous years. However now I did on my home connection, wasn't a watchguard issue but changing it to direct connection via Saroman's reccomendation it worked out fine. Thank you again folks!