From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)
Message-Id: <199712190124.RAA22061@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Signed Applet Example
To: neerajvora@hotmail.com (Neeraj Vora)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:24:27 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <199712170725.XAA10380@f132.hotmail.com> from "Neeraj Vora" at Dec 16, 97 11:25:50 pm
hi,
> All I did was create a
> trusted "Duke" identity in my JDK identity database, got the Duke
> certificate from JavaSoft (Duke.x509) and associated the two (javakey
> -ic ...). After that I thought if I tried accessing the signed applet on
> the JavaSoft web site (exactly as described in the example) it should be
> able to read and write a local file, but that does not happen. I'm using
> the JDK applet viewer. I tried with both JDK1.1.3 at home and JDK1.1.5
> at work and got the same results.
we found the problem.
somehow the signedWriteFile.jar file being accessed by the web page
was corrupted. until we fix this, you'll have to temporarily download
all the files and try the example by hand locally.
the downloaded files were not corrupted.
> Also, I have another question - would this signed applet be able to work
> with HotJava1.1 browser?
hotjava supports signed jars as well, but follows a different
"security model". it has different security levels which you may
configure to your liking. this is done thru the:
Edit->Preferences->AppletSecurity
pulldown menus.
thanks for the information and sorry for the inconvenience,
charlie