Sure, but the client can also refuse permission to a signed applet as well. And then there is the definition of "client." Is a separate machine that is used to store files (e.g., an FTP server) considered a client of the servlet?
-----Original Message----- From: Mark E. Zawadzki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can a Servlet... Technically, the server requests that the client send the cookie. --- "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh uh...and in the case of a cookie? ;-) > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monte Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Can a Servlet... > > > No a Servlet can not access the hard disk of the client computer because the > servlet is running on the server. The only was for any Server side > mechanism to access information on a local client hard drive is to > send the client some code that the client will run (such as a signed > applet), > which will read the needed data from the client hard drive and send it back > to the server. > > > --Monte Glenn Gardner > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anoop Kumar V wrote: > > > no.. an applet cannot and should not be allowed to access the hard disk.. > in > > order to prevent any malicious attempts.. > > To answer the question, yes, a servlet can very well access the hard disk. > > > > regards, > > Anoop > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: S Srinivas Nayak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:40 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Can a Servlet... > > > > > > no may be an applet can do that for u > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: priya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:27 PM > > Subject: Can a Servlet... > > > > > > > Can a servlet access the hard disk of the client machine ... ??? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Priya > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > > body > > > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > > > > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > > > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > > > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > body > > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning" Robert Cringle (columnist, author, host of "Triumph of the Nerds") __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
