When I visit the javadocs, it opens firefox with a url like this and only shows the ERROR 500 msg mentioned in the main post:

I only have this problem if I run Netbeans as a normal user.

So, this 8082 service belongs to the Netbeans app itself, right? It reads the URL path, finds the html item within the *-javadoc.jar file on the local system and then sends it to the browser? Is there any way to debug this process? Or get it to output some debug information that might give me some hints on what is happening? I've tried to do a bit of debugging on my end. I gave the suggestions in this thread a try, but it didn't help in my scenario. Hi all, I'm experiencing the same problems when running NetBeans 6.8, on OpenSuse 12.2 (64-bit). Please fix URLUtil.getURLOfAppropriateType or reassign it to httpserver to fix The translated URL returned by HttpServerURLMapper: Jar:file:/home/archiv/java/1.6.0/jdk-6-doc.zip!/docs/api/overview-summary.html I am not sure if calling URLMapper with URLMapper.NETWORK is necessary in the extbrowser since the passed URL is in theĮxternal form but it decidedly breaks the passed URL. HttpServerURLMapper of the httpserver module. the extbrowser calls URLMapper.findURL(fo, URLMapper.NETWORK) in URLUtil.getURLOfAppropriateType that delegates to the javadoc module creates correct URL with URLMapper.findURL(fileObject, URLMapper.EXTERNAL) and passes it to Regarding the incorrect URL I have found following while debugging:ġ. The platform or the library with attached javadoc has to be referenced by any open project to list the javadoc as a

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