[jdjlist] RE: Access Denied exception from Applet

[John Ghidiu]

Saminathan,   As far as I know, you cannot have an applet dictate which policy file to use. If you could, then security would be a joke. When using RMI, since you start the server yourself, you can choose the policy file (the same holds true for a Java client). What this means for you is that if you want the applet to have rights (outside of the sandbox) on a client machine, either sign the jar or change the clients policy file. At my workplace, we have an entry like this:   grant CodeBase "http://dev/-" {         permission java.security.AllPermission; };   Which grants any applet coming from the development machine all privileges. Regards, John John Ghidiu Benderson Development Company Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (716) 878-9376 -----Original Message----- From: SAMINATHAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 00:25 To: JDJList Subject: [jdjlist] Access Denied exception from Applet Hi all                We are invoking an applet from our HTML for doing some operation in the client machine.And we are getting the access denied exception.We created our own policy file and try to include in our Jar.   But the problem is that it is not finding the policy file in the Jar.   1.Is there any way i can specify in the HTML like use  -D option and the policy file while invoking the applet.   And how do i notify the applet that it is supposed to use the local Policy file , instead of original JVM policy file.   I had done the same thing , while running a RMI server, i used  to run my RMI server  like this Java - D mypolicy.policy  JavaFile.But i don't have any idea how to do the same thing in the case of applet.   Some one pl throw light on this.   Thanks and Regards Saminathan.            To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm