Your clients will still need to have JRE installed (version listed in the SK or higher). It is difficult to digest, I am not sure if what they are saying is that come January 2019 we won't be able to use / update the JDK anymore as a Commercial User or not, but if I am going to mark anything as an answer it should be a complete answer.įor any level of support, you need to install the hotfix here: Mobile Access Portal and Java Compatibility - New Mobile Access Portal Agent technology So, I decided that I would paraphrase your answer, include the bit about needing to download the JDK and a link to the Oracle Roadmap for Java SE (which includes the JDK). SNX does that it with Windows / IE 11, so ActiveX doesn’t sound right…Īnyway, I need some help from someone who can give me a definitive answer as to how to use a Mac with the latest Safari (12) and SSL VPN mobile access, and whether this will have some kind of mainstream support and full documentation soon? The TAC engineer says they don’t get many calls about Mac and VPN and after conferring with her colleagues seemed to suggest that the hotfix has Safari use ActiveX instead of Java (?)

I can only guess, given all this, that maybe the hotfix makes Safari download and save a JNLP file and then launch it outside of Safari?

So, for the executives in question I will probably need them to bring in their Macbooks so I can do it in person if I want to avoid trouble I think, if I am not mistaken, your general 'do I have Java' download page is only the Java JRE package, right? Though it suggests, right after the 'Solution' heading, that it is based on a new Mobile Access Portal Agent technology, the requirements section for Mac OS It says it requires the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8u171 to be installed. Which says that there isn’t even a released hotfix for 80.20 (contact them for a manual fix of some sort) so it is probably a good thing that we didn’t upgrade yet. Safari 12 and above no longer supports NPAPI (technology required for Java applets)Īpple forum post regarding Java and Safari 12ĭoes this mean that SNX will no longer work for anyone but Windows users with Internet Exporer 11?Ĭalled TAC and they can’t seem to give me a definitive answer, and I can’t see much, if any, details in the hotfix sk as to whether this supports Safari 12, and also how it gets around Java Plug-Ins being unavailable.

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