[10042] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Java and HTML and well known socket numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren New)
Tue Jun 4 12:53:44 1996
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Darren New <dnew@yuan.fv.com>
Reply-To: Darren New <dnew@fv.com>
To: Matthew James Marnell <marnellm@portia.portia.com>
Cc: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, Russell Holt <holtrf@destinyusa.com>,
www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199606040711.DAA09082@portia.portia.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> back, why send one back? Why send a whole big bloody applet back
> when you can use any number of protocols to talk back and forth.
Well, if you're running a public server, users might want to upload Java
applets to be run when forms are filled out, for example. (I.e., I might
want to replace insecure CGI scripts with "secure" Java applets, so I
don't need to hand-check all user scripts for security purposes.)
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Darren New / Dir. of Custom Software Design / First Virtual Holdings Inc.
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