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From: Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Closing a stream in an applet causes a crash
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:53:05 -0800
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:04:18 -0500, Sam Takoy <sam.takoy@yahoo.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>     URL url = new URL(urlString);
>     URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
>
>     InputStream is = urlc.getInputStream();

You can't do that unless the Applet is signed.  Go into the control
panel and turn on the console so you can get more detail on where and
why it died.


See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/signedapplet.html
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmer's Almanac
It is breathtaking how a misplaced comma in a computer program can
shred megabytes of data in seconds.