-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:15:45PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Proxies and firewalling is not in my experience a huge trouble in >> these environments; the general non-availablity of any other >> software than IE (with JVM and various scripting languages) on >> netcafe/library computers is. >> >> Is putty available as a Java applet, plugin or the like? That >> would solve the problem that mindterm addresses, but I doubt it. > > > No it isn't, but you can always download it from the putty project > page [1] and just run it from the Internet. Unless there are > paranoid settings you can't change in IE you can just download the > exe file and run it in the system you are using. Why do you need a > Java applet when Windows will happily run any non-signed exe file? > > > <snip> Many internet cafe's or kiosk computers (or school computers, *sigh* though they're a lot better than they used to be) prevent running executables from outside specific paths, and limit write access to those paths. Also, I've seen lots of kiosks that keep a browser in full screen mode, preventing access to anything other than the web. A java applet is the only viable solution in cases like these. Benjamin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDCACUev9LOsNKpIQRAjraAKDDmMPdQAQDUyZVZmzJoqBRBaJ1pwCfcvKE uBLBJ3kypnlMYtT3hAP1kls= =2qts -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]