The local getCodeBase problem is not present in Java 8 build 94, the most recent version.
From: Mickey Segal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:56 PM To: Java Security ([email protected]) Subject: RE: getCodeBase broken locally in 7 update 25 The same getCodeBase problem seems to be occurring on the MacOS version too. From: Mickey Segal [mailto:[email protected]] I upgraded a Windows 7 computer to Java version 1.7.0_25 from 1.7.0_21. A getCodeBase call in a signed applet now returns null. In previous versions of Java, getCodeBase returned a URL that referred to the current directory (tested from Java 1.1 to 1.7.0_21 over the years). Was this done purposely for security reasons, or is it just a bug? I will also test on Macintosh and report back on macosx-port-dev if it is a problem there too.
