Re: Can a Applet write on the local file system in JDK1.1

Marianne Mueller (mrm@eng.sun.com)
Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:30:07 -0800

Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 11:30:07 -0800
Message-Id: <199701311930.LAA17178@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: nair@bits.soft.net
Subject: Re: Can a Applet write on the local file system in JDK1.1

> Can a applet write on to your local file system in JDK1.1 when
> run through Netscape.
> Expecting a reply at the earliest. I have visited your faq site
> it says it cannot, but i heard that it is possible in JDK1.1 using signed
> applets. I just wanted to confirm it with you.

We have support for digital signatures for applets distributed as
signed JAR files. Refer to http://java.sun.com/security for info,
and also, please refer to the hypermail archive for this mailing list
at http://jeeves.javasoft.com:8080/hypermail/java-security for more
details.

You can create a signed archive today with JDK 1.1, and you can test
it out with the JDK 1.1 appletviewer.

As of today (Jan 31 1997) I don't know of any browsers that have yet
integrated support for Java signatures. I recommend you contact the
browser vendors directly, and let them know that you would like to
use this feature of JDK 1.1.

Marianne