> From: Tar Zoltán (István út)
> Sent: 1998. november 9. 16:13
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Some weird security problems in netscape
>
>
> Use Java plugin and signed jar files, then you never have
> security problem.
>
> You can find more from signed jar, at java.sun.com, in the
> Tutorial section.
>
> Zoltan TAR.
>
> ----------
> From: Harold G. Andrews II[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 1998. november 9. 15:42
> To: Dimitris Vyzovitis; Java Linux List
> Subject: RE: Some weird security problems in netscape
>
> I ran into a similar problem when I had two applets in the same HTML
> document and wanted to send mouse events from one to the other via
> network sockets (I was doing it to prove to myself that I could, not
> for any other really practical purposes). I could get it to work okay
> using appletviewer, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer Version 4 (after
> disabling the network security checking). The only thing I've been
> able to figure for Netscape, however, is that you have to have your
> applet signed by some kind of certificate authority. This costs
> money, so I've never done it. If there is a less expensive (i.e.
> free) way of doing this, I don't know. If anybody out there has a
> notion how to completely disable the network security checking in
> Netscape, I'd like to be your friend. Thanks
>
>
> -Andy
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dimitris Vyzovitis
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:55 PM
> To: Java Linux List
> Subject: Some weird security problems in netscape
>
>
> Hi !
> I am having some weird security problems with netscape 4.5
> I have an applet that tries to fetch some data over the net. The
> data are located in the same host as the applet and under its
> codeBase.
> It is my conception, that the applet should download the data
> normally.
> But this is what I get:
>
> netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.class from
> local disk trying to access url:
> http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~dviz/dip/images/lena256.raw
> at
> netscape.security.AppletSecurity.checkURLConnect(AppletSecurity.java:9
> 44)
> at
> java.lang.SecurityManager.checkURLConnect(SecurityManager.java:1239)
> at netscape.net.URLConnection.connect(URLConnection.java:79)
> at
> netscape.net.URLConnection.getInputStream(URLConnection.java:198)
> at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:606)
> at dip.applets.DIPApplet._fetchImage(DIPApplet.java:131)
> at dip.applets.DIPApplet._loadImages(DIPApplet.java:121)
> at dip.applets.DIPApplet.init(DIPApplet.java:63)
> * at
> netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$InitAppletEvent.dispatch(DerivedApp
> letFrame.java:553)
> at
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread$EventPump.dispatchEvents(EventDispatchThr
> ead.java:81)
> at
> java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:135)
> at
> netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$AppletEventDispatchThread.run(Deriv
> edAppletFrame.java:911)
>
> Has anybody got a clue about what this means and how I could
> work around it?
>
>
> --
> Dimitrios Vyzovitis -- Information Processing Laboratory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dept. of Electrical and Computer
> Engineering
> http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~dviz
>
>
>
>
