Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: emf Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Applet not running on the web Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:46:49 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <135qe8hbr64hkrjdsask4b48bfnsli9koo@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: q0ALVNQQ0ipGALYDIb4tnQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21243 On 2013-01-09 01:56 Roedy Green wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:46:39 -0500, emf wrote, > quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> FileReader ephemeris = new FileReader("transits/ephemeris.csv"); >> BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(ephemeris); > > Applets may not do i/o, otherwise they could snoop on the hard disks > of strangers out of the net running them. You must put your classes > in a jar and sign it. > > See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/signedapplets.html > http://mindprod.com/jgloss/applet.html Hmm... All this seems too complicated and still not quite satisfactory. It might be simpler to suggest that the visitor, if sufficiently interested, download the files and run the program in his/her own computer instead. I'll have to check Lew's suggestions first. emf -- It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/bd/itaintmebabe.html