On Sunday 28 March 2004 01:11, Miguel wrote:
> Egon wrote:
> >> The code is currently commented out because it will not work inside
> >> the Applet. It is a security violation for an untrusted applet to try
> >> to talk to another web server.
> >
> > Would it be an option that the code is skiped over when the applet is
> > run? That is, a passive disabling of the code?
>
> Yes, but we will need to make a few changes to the code.
>
> For example, the code references the URI class, which did not exist in
> Java 1.1. 

Ah... did not realize that... mmm...

> Therefore, the applet will not even load on Microsoft IE & old 
> Netscape.
>
> dadml.jar adds 28K to the size of the applet. And, does it need the XML
> parser? I am not saying that we shouldn't do it, but we should think about
> it.

gnujaxp-onlysax.jar would do...

Mmm... this is exactly the reason why we had patches in CDK... to just comment 
out bits that were troublesome for applets...

What about this option? A patch or an adapted version... or two separate 
classes using one interface... an AppletFileManager and a ProgramFileManager 
which would wrap around it with the extra DADML functionality?

> > Otherwise, what would it require to use the JmolAppletProxy? Can you
> > point me  to piece of Jmol source code that uses it?
>
> The code in FileManager references the JmolAppletProxy. It allows the
> unsigned applet to load arbitrary URLs ... by routing the request through
> JmolAppletProxy.cgi ... which runs on the web server.

Ack.

E.


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