hmm, you're right, that newsgroup seems to have disappeared.
developer.netscape.com is way out of date for the most part, and it's
not maintained, so I'd take anything there with a grain of salt. I'm not
sure where to take NS4x inquiries but I'll try to find out. As for
signtool, if you've signed your applet with a "real" purchased
certificate from a CA that Netscape knows about (like Verisign or one of
many others), then there's no need to explicitly install it on the
user's machine. If it's from a recognized CA, the user's browser will
accept it the first time it encounters the applet. No installation
necessary.
As for Netscape 6, currently you can sign JavaScript. Signed Java
applets aren't fully functional yet. For JavaScript, the process is
roughly the same as it is in 4x.
-Mitch
Jeff Messner wrote:
>
> Where can you go to discuss Netscape 4.x issues? The docs in
> developer.netscape.com directed me to "netscape.dev.security" on
> secnews.netscape.com but this newsgroup does not exist.
>
> I guess my question could apply to NS6 too...
>
> I have an applet which I have signed with the Netscape signtool. My
> company has not yet purchased an actual secure certificate yet, so for
> testing purposes I used signtool to create one directly into the
> Netscape user's certificate database (by the way, how can you do this
> for NS6?)
>
> My question is, when we buy the real certificate and create the signed
> applet jar file, how does the user accept/install our certificate so
> that they can run our applet? Can this be done automatically, i.e. the
> first time they access the applet, it realizes they don't have our
> certificate and guides the user through installing it?
