Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "tar" Subject: Re: java webstart problem Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 26 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:40:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918834 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:40:34 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:40:34 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:2686 To: comp.lang.java.gui Roedy Green writes: > The problem is the user has to ok the certificate. If you had ten jars > all signed with different certs, the user would have to ok them all > individually. That would drive users nuts. So I think Sun said, ONE > CERT ONLY. Doing it one-by-one would certainly driver users insane. It seems that is more of an interface issue. One could imagine a single dialog that would allow the examination and approval of multiple certificates. Now, granted, that would be more cumbersome, and one could imagine potential attempts to sneak in an unrecognized certificate in a longer list, but it would at least be something to consider. -- Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24