could you shift+F5 and make certain you have the most recent code? It appears that the most likely culprit is that SparkWeb isn’'t pinging the server to say it is still alive, if we can figure out what action you are taking to get it to stop pinging the server we can figure out where the bug lies.
When I upgraded I had the same problem. I removed opnefire and re-installed and now clients can connect. If rpm -e does not succeed (and you are on centos or redhat) uninstall with “yum remove openfire”. I would back up your database and /opt/openfire first.
I cant think whats else I can do to make this work.
I a running on Centos, have downloaded latest and run on windows which works fine.
I have tried changing the port to 8081 also tried on ie7 and firefox.
I also thought it might have been because I had change the security settings so only secure connection for cleints, but also changed that to optional and still no change.
Have tried all these changes with restarts as well.