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Re: Applet writing to client disk is possible rumour says
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Toomey)
Thu Jan 11 14:27:33 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 09:05:35 PST
From: toomey@aolproductions.com (Chris Toomey)
To: john@insightnews.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
>
> I've heard that on the client machine, a Java applet may write to one single
> directory, and only that one single directory in order to store information.
> Because of security issues, this directory has to have a specific name and
> be in a specific place (off the root I would guess).
>
> Does anyone have any information about this topic? Does this possibility
> really exist, or is it just a rumour? I haven't come across anything like
> this on the Sun site.
>
John, for security reasons, applets running under Netscape can't
write or read files at all on the client machine. There's some
ability to do so under Sun's appletviewer, if that's worth anything
to you.
See http://java.sun.com/sfaq/
Chris
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