Apparently people are still using them for executing Java on the client
machine, especially to read data from peripheral devices.


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:

> People still use Applets? !!!
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Pradeep Fernando <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> regarding the https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-14144
>>
>> Currently we cant embed any applets within our JSP pages. The root cause
>> being session check during applet class file, load requests in the carbon
>> server and applet loaders using different sessionID.
>>
>> Starting from tomcat 7 container implementation they don't allow applet
>> code to use same browser session. [1] [2]
>> Starting with tomcat 7, user has to explicitly pass in sessionID to the
>> applet code in order to authenticate the request.
>>
>> however we can get this to work by making .class files and .jar files as
>> non-secured content in the
>>
>> CarbonSecuredContext#allowNonsecuredContent() method.
>>
>> have to evaluate whether this will introduce any security vulnerabilties.
>> One other option is to make NonsecuredContent configurable..
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-users/201107.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
>> [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/eid-applet/zAnrlfzm-1k
>>
>> thanks,
>> --Pradeep
>>
>
>
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