Sun Java 1.4.2, getting it

Someone recently posted on Java and Mozilla and I am going to respond but I wanted to try my method in SuSE 8.0 first. I had only done it in 9.0. I realized that on my 8.0 PC, my Mozilla was old and I hadn't installed Java yet. I updated Mozilla and then went to Sun to get the latest Java. I visited http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html and clicked on download under "Download J2SE v 1.4.2_03 JRE" and there it just hangs, waiting to connect. I tried the same with IE6 and got connected right away. It seems that Sun, not exactly a friend of Gates has made a web site that only works with IE? Has anyone else noticed this? Damon Register