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Re: HotJava security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Zoller - Imonics Developme)
Fri Jun 23 10:14:33 1995
From: Gregory Zoller - Imonics Development <gzoller@imonics.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 09:52:03 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> From majordom@java.sun.com Fri Jun 23 09:23:51 1995
> From: ekim@nyquist.bellcore.com (Michael Mills 21728)
> Subject: Re: HotJava security
> To: david.hopwood@lady-margaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk (David Hopwood)
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 08:38:40 -0400 (EDT)
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> Hi,
>
> [stuff deleted]
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> > HotJava applets can only open sockets to the host from which the applet was
> > loaded. All other network access has to be done via a protocol handler,
> > which is trusted by the user of the browser.
>
> [other stuff deleted]
>
>
> I am currently using an appplet which is downloaded from host "a" and then
> creates a socket connection to host "b" and gets and displays data in a window.
> It would be disappointing if that "went away".
Me too, me too. Java's the easiest way I know to make a multi-
threaded client/server system. I'd be sad to lose that under a mountain
of security overhead.
>
> If the protocol handler is implemented in the Security Dialog of HotJava
> then I understand, otherwise please explain.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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