🚀 go-pugleaf

You can read files from the server your Applet came from all day long
without signing.  You can't use the File object to do it (it represents
a local file which would be the client machine and a no-no for an
Applet).  You do it the old fashioned way by opening a stream to the
file and sucking down the bytes.  No signing, no extra costs.

-Rich

dnoyeB wrote:
> 
> You cant read files with an applet unless it is signed.  Signing applets
> will cost you ~$400.  It will cost you $400 to read files with your applet.
> take it or leave it...
> 
> experimentlally you can turn off your browwser security with MSIE (not
> nutscrape).  You can generate fake certificates and accept them on your
> computer.  If you gotta start messing with certs, its gonna be a headache.
> 
> "webseal" <webseal@web.de> wrote in message
> news:3b37a31f.27266020@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Hi,
> > in my applet I try to read some data out of an text file, that is
> > stored in the same URL as the applet class on the server.
> >
> > I use the following construct to read the file
> >
> > stdFile = new File("file.txt");
> > try
> > {
> >      fileIn = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(stdFile));
> > }
> > catch (IOException e)
> > {
> >     System.out.println("...");
> > }
> >
> > If I start the applet within jbuilder in the appletviewer, everything
> > works fine.
> > But if I start the html-file, that starts the applet in browser I get
> > an error in the browser:
> > com.ms.securitiy.SecurityExceptionEx(..) cannot access file file.txt
> >
> > I think there is a security problem when connecting to the file.
> > Should I use another read-method, instead of bufferedreader(new
> > filereader ...)?
> > Help appreciated
> >
> > Webseal