Java games applet not connecting to Yahoo

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Published on 2011-01-17T04:33:37Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 4:54 UTC
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Hi.

I am trying to play a Y! game which use a java applet. The applet displays the message:

Alert. Unable to connect to server. One of four things could have caused this: 1) You are behind a firewall. 2) You are not connected to the internet. 3) The games server is down. 4) You have a stale page in your cache.

I have added an exception to the Windows firewall for java.exe. I am obviously connected to the Internet okay. The games server is not down when I am at home. I doubt it is down when I am at work. I have never successfully loaded this page before, so I doubt I have a stale page in cache.

Could it be the corporate firewall? Nothing else in my web browser has been blocked before. Maybe the java applet connects on a different port to the browser.

What should I test?

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