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Re: JDK/appletviewer security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Sep 13 19:26:40 1995

Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:25:03 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Caveh Jalali <caveh@mufasa40.Eng.Sun.COM>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM



Hi Caveh,

> how do you change the security mode that appletviewer enforces?  the
> default seems to be "paranoid" mode.  i'd like to turn security
> checking off...

Currently the only supported mode is "source". That means that applets can
only connect back to their source location. This is what Java enabled browsers
will be required to use as the default. We'll add more security modes in later
releases of the JDK.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff

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