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Hi,
I just discovered that the new Netscape 6 browser is 'suddenly' not allowing remote applets to access remote resources, such as TCP/IP
connections. This is because of applet signing, which is a feature available in the Java 2 (ver. 1.3) toolkit. It seems to be rigidly enforced in Netscape 6, so I can still use appletviewer to use the applets, but when tried with Netscape 6 it claims security violations and quits. (I could have sworn that I was getting access to the applets a few days ago with Netscape 6.) I can still use the applets with Netscape 4.72. Does anybody know how to get around this?
BTW, Netscape 6 is extremely buggy, and seems to have fewer features - it feels like it has been steered more by the commercial AOL interests
than the GPL developers. In the mid 90s AOL introduced the worst users and abuses to the internet, remember publicly writable FTP sites, and when spam got a user cut off? Are they doing it again with Netscape?
Note: You can run both the new and old browsers on the same machine at the same time. But, I don't suggest deleting the old one just yet.
Hugh
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I just discovered that the new Netscape 6 browser is 'suddenly' not allowing remote applets to access remote resources, such as TCP/IP
connections. This is because of applet signing, which is a feature available in the Java 2 (ver. 1.3) toolkit. It seems to be rigidly enforced in Netscape 6, so I can still use appletviewer to use the applets, but when tried with Netscape 6 it claims security violations and quits. (I could have sworn that I was getting access to the applets a few days ago with Netscape 6.) I can still use the applets with Netscape 4.72. Does anybody know how to get around this?
BTW, Netscape 6 is extremely buggy, and seems to have fewer features - it feels like it has been steered more by the commercial AOL interests
than the GPL developers. In the mid 90s AOL introduced the worst users and abuses to the internet, remember publicly writable FTP sites, and when spam got a user cut off? Are they doing it again with Netscape?
Note: You can run both the new and old browsers on the same machine at the same time. But, I don't suggest deleting the old one just yet.
Hugh
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