Sorry mate, that won't work as applets are governed by security managers
that prevent them from reading or writing to clients file systems, unless
your a good hacker using IE 5.0!
I think your getting mixed up with Client side applets and Server side
servlets.
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hi all,
i am new to this group. iam writing a servlet which want to read a
file content and append it in a textarea. it is giving
netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.checkread: Read of
'/home/book.txt' not permitted.
any help would be appreciated.
bye,
MUTHU.
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