Re: Anyone doing a Java-based robot yet?6

Mr David A Weeks (cs31dw@surrey.ac.uk)
Wed, 21 Feb 96 14:55:45 GMT

>
> I am confused here, when you talk about Java robots, are you
> talking about a Java applet running under Netscape? I thought
> that for security purposes, Java applets could only open
> connections to the server they came from. Or maybe you're
> talking about a real Java program?

I should distinguish between a Java applet and a Java application. The project I am working on is of the latter type. Applications can indeed open connectionsto wherever they like as you define the URL address as part of the URL class. (See doc:///doc/api/net.www.html.URL.html#_top_ for more details)

For more information about Java security see doc:///doc/security/security.html

Dave Weeks.
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