🚀 go-pugleaf

Greg:

Fishing with a shotgun again? <g>  Yes, that would work but only those that
control the
server could deploy such an applet.  Probably overkill in this case.

-Rich

Greg Hamer wrote:

> now that rich says you don't, you can do it if you write a client server
> applet and then
> have the server do all the file stuff with your applet instructing it
> what to do. Lots of work
> though. You can wade through  samples\borland\apps\chess\client & server
> if your really
> need to do it.
>
> Rich Wilkman wrote:
>
> > Gil:
> >
> > You don't.  An Applet cannot write files (or create files/directories)
> > on the
> > server where it lives, only read.  All the File related classes
> > implement
> > security manager and will stop those activites (even checking for
> > write
> > permision, if memory serves).  You are pretty much limited to
> > activities based
> > upon InputStreams.
> >
> > -Rich
> >
> > Gil Delavous wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I want to create an applet the basically displays files and
> > directories
> > > in the server where this applet is located. I'd like my applet read
> > and
> > > write some of the files, create/remove directories, and so on.
> > > It seems that I cannot use the File and RandomAccessFile classes,
> > because
> > > they only work with local system.
> > > So, how can I easily handle this from an applet?