Launching the Game

[Elvenwarrior]

FYI, I am new to this game, I heard good things about it, and I want to give it a shot. I pressed play, and an application error came up, saying it was unable to launch. I clicked on "Details", and it gave me this:

jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/">
<information>
<title>Haven and Hearth</title>
<vendor>Seatribe</vendor>
<homepage href="http://www.havenandhearth.com/"/>
<description>The Haven game</description>
<icon href="icon.gif"/>
<icon href="splash.gif" kind="splash"/>
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.5+" max-heap-size="256M"/>
<jar href="haven.jar"/>
<jar href="haven-res.jar"/>
<property name="haven.errorhandler" value="on"/>
<property name="haven.errorurl" value="http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/errsvc/post"/>
<property name="haven.defserv" value="moltke.seatribe.se"/>
<property name="haven.fullscreen" value="off"/>
<property name="haven.authuser" value="edited out"/>
<property name="haven.authck" value="edited out"/>
<extension name="jogl" href="http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/jogl/jogl.jnlp"/>
</resources>
<application-desc/>
</jnlp>

and this:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://www.havenandhearth.com/java/jogl/jogl.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.getJreResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload._downloadExtensionsHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensions(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(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)

and this:

java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequest(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.getJreResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload._downloadExtensionsHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensionsHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadExtensions(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(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)


Help please? I am not very computer literate when it comes to this stuff. Any suggestions?

[borka]

go to your Java Control Panel -> Security Tab -> check "activate Java Content in Browser"

and -> Extended Tab -> "Standard -Java for Browser" (3rd "Headline") - check only alternative browsers there (not IE) like Mozilla Firefox

you have to be aware that the Java-Browser -plugin is very insecure - so i advice you to not enable it for MS Internet Explorer and disable Java Browser Plug in in your alternative Browser settings (FF - Extras - Addons - Plugins)


And you'll need to choose "Open Java Web Start Launcher" when asked what to do with auohaven file

report back please

[Elvenwarrior]

Did all that, and I am still getting the same message. No idea what I'm doing wrong, but it doesn't like something.

[borka]

Check your AV / FW / Router settings

Ports used are TCP 1871 UDP 1870 - make exceptions for both in FW or pass through in Router settings

Disable AV just for a test - (best with closed browsers)