Most developers have fled the n.p.m.general group due to the rash of
non-developer questions posted here. You will have better luck asking in the
n.p.m.oji or n.p.m.security groups on this topic.
-Dan Veditz
dierk wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I wrote an applet to restrict access to certain parts of my homepage.
> This applet needs to make a connection over the net back to the server
> where my pages reside. It all used to work with Netscape 4.7, but with
> N6 the applet complains about a java.security.AccessControlException:
> access denied (java.net.SocketPermission www.blabla.bla resolve). I
> figure that one has to grant access by putting the right entry into the
> java.policy file of Sun's JRE 1.3. Well, at least that's what I tried,
> but it didn't work. Does N6 gets its java.policy from somewhere else? Or
> is there some other way to get rid of this error? One other related
> question: When I want to execute some signed applet to enable file read
> permissions for the applet where do I have to set up the security policy
> (add file read permissions and place the right certificate into the key
> store)? Usually I would again try the policy tool to edit the
> java.policy file accordingly, but somehow this does not seem to be the
> way with N6.
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Dierk
