Java client authorisation to Wingate from Mac OSX 10.3+

[noelwelpton]

I have two wingates running at separate location. Most users are Windows, but a few are Macs. At both locations, www proxy users are required to authenticate, I use the Java-based method.
The Mac user authentication worked fine on OSX 10.2 until upgraded to 10.3 or 10.4, when, with the exception of one Mac on 10.4, all stopped working with the authentication process.
On attempting to login, I get the standard authentication window from Wingate, followed by the login pop-up, initially the coffee-cup. After a while, this changes to the tea-cup, thereafter nothing happens, the user login never comes up and the java script never seems to complete. This occurs using either Safari (preferred browser) or Int Explorer (5.2 Mac).
In principle, I think this is a mac issue. I have compared all of the security and Java setting between the one Mac which does work and two of the others, finding no significant differences. Firewalling on/off seems to have no effect. Monitor is not displaying any errors.
Any ideas, please?

Regards

[adrien]

You could use HTTP authentication instead of the Java client.

Most browsers support Basic Auth.

Adrien

[noelwelpton]

You could use HTTP authentication instead of the Java client.

Most browsers support Basic Auth.

Adrien

Sorry, perhaps I misled you in the original.
Users to www service authenticate via HTTP. This includes pc's and macs.
In the case of the mac's OSX10.3 and later, it seems that the java applets are not executing correctly within the browser.

Regards