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Re: How to run a program from an applet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Javier Esteve Pradera)
Fri Mar 1 06:23:17 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 10:32:43 +0100
From: jep@dirac.tid.es (Javier Esteve Pradera)
To: jep@dirac.tid.es, shaneb@liii.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
Cc: jep@dirac.tid.es
> From shaneb@liii.com Fri Mar 1 03:21:53 1996
> From: shaneb@liii.com (Shane Bouslough)
> To: jep@dirac.tid.es (Javier Esteve Pradera)
> Subject: Re: How to run a program from an applet
> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 05:24:23 GMT
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> On 23 Feb 1996 06:50:15 -0800, you wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to start a program from an applet in the host that is
> > executing the applet?
>
> Nope, otherwise you might run "rm -r *". This is a deliberate
> security violation.
>
> -Shane
I understand. But if the user can't allow a particular program to be
started from an applet (for example a program for playing remotely an MPEG
or MJPEG movie), and an applet can't integrate native methods, and an
applet can't read or write any local file, and an applet can't even read an
environment variable and can only open a socket connection with the Web
server ...
Then the benefits of the pair Browser+JAVA are nowadays very limited since
there aren't many JAVA packages that, being loaded from the wed server
allow you to do something different.
Kindest regards,
Javier
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Javier Esteve Pradera.
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