Re: tools for programming applets
On 05/21/2011 12:10 PM, horos22 wrote:
Frankly I'm surprised there isn't something like this. I can
understand why it wouldn't be the standard or if you'd need a
directive to javarun that requires authentication from the remote
server to provide security for a non-standard local applet, but really
- needing to rebuild the whole environment to just test a new applet
strikes me as using a tail to wag the dog.
Java applets were designed to be as secure as possible. Hence why, for
example, they are forbidden from opening a network connection to
anywhere other than their source domain. Allowing you to replace your
own applet to run in another's context domain is a recipe for security
holes; in principle, you could allow the server to list other applets
that can run in their domain (in similarity to how CORS stuff works),
but that is essentially the same level of changes needed as hosting
another copy of the applet.
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