[Midas] Recent Java updates

[Zach Mullen]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Patrick Reynolds <
patrick.reynolds at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Unfortunately changes to Java and general browser/OS deprecation of Java
> have made these problems more and more common. Some ideas:
>
> 1) The JAR file that ships with Midas is self-signed. Many browsers have
> start do reject this outright, but there is generally a way to enable
>  acceptance of these. Another option would be to rebuild the jar yourself
> and sign it with a key valid for the website upon which you’re running the
> Midas instance.
> 2) The standard upload in the latest “master” of the repository supports
> large files (over 2GB) using newer Javascript APIs. You could achieve the
> same functionality using the standard uploader, merging the files, and
> running the DICOM extractor on the resulting item.
>
One caveat here is that the anonymization procedure will not be run if you
do it this way.

Thanks,

>
> I hope that helps. Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do
> to help.
>
> --
> Patrick Reynolds
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc.
> 919 869 8848
>
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Weiner, Michael wrote:
>
> I am trying to debug an uploader issue, that I cannot seem to fix nor
> track down the exact problem. We are running the latest Midas code and a
> few users have contacted me stating that the DICOM uploader doesn't work
> nor does the java uploader (there is no Upload button visible) and there is
> a message in the dialog box about:
>
> You must install and enable Java on your system in order to use the large
> file uploader
>
> However , in my testing on a Windows machine, I have a valid installation
> of Java 1.7.0_55 and when I test this in Internet Explorer, it works,
> however I cannot get it to work in Firefox for the life of me. The users
> are all using Linux, but I have a strange feeling this is something in
> Firefox preventing it from working. I have even run ControlPanel and
> lowered the security setting as low as it will go (medium) and added the
> site to the security exception list ... again, it works in IE but not
> Firefox. I thought I had tracked this down, because the version of Java
> that was being used was being blocked because it was too old and vulnerable
> - but even after upgrading to the latest version it still fails.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? And does anyone have any hints for getting this
> to work?
>
> Regards
> Michael Weiner
>
>
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Zach Mullen
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