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Re: Loading applet from local file system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Fri Jan 26 14:01:08 1996
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: gavin@asiaconnect.com.my (Gavin Bong Chun Jin)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 08:47:54 -0800 (PST)
Cc: java-interest@webrunner.neato.org (java)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960126164011.15539B-100000@ns.asiaconnect.com.my> from "Gavin Bong Chun Jin" at Jan 26, 96 05:06:17 pm
Hi Gavin,
> Let me describe the scenario first. I am running a Win95 JDKbeta.
> What I want to do are as follows:
>
> a) User starts netscape
> b) User Chooses Open-File option
> c) User selects index.html from A: drive
> (where index.html has an applet tag)
> d) The index.html causes an applet residing in A: drive to run
> e) The applet reads from a file in A: and does some processing on it.
> f) Finally the applet connects to another host and sends the strings
> read from the file.
>
> Part of the scenario worked when I ran appletviewer on the index.html file.
> However it fails when I use netscape as I described above. Why?
The problem is caused by the fact that Netscape's file security is stricter
than the appletviewer's. Netscape lets you start an applet from a file URL
but the applet fails if it needs more classes than just the initial one.
It is a bug in Netscape.
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff
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