# Re: connecting to a third host

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Fri, 9 May 1997 09:26:55 -0700

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    Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 09:26:55 -0700

    Message-Id: <199705091626.JAA12636@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: Christophe.Tcheng@ens-lyon.fr

    Subject: Re: connecting to a third host

> In your page http://java.sun.com/sfaq/#appletCL
> you said :
> "Netscape Navigator loading an applet from the local file system can connect to port on third host"
> I can't do that, I sure have made a mistake somewhere, but can't figure out where.
> Can you please help me ?

The short answer to your question is, it is probably not possible in
the latest versions of Navigator to do what you would like to do.

A longer answer is,

Netscape has been incrementally changing their Java sandbox slightly
since the examples were originally written. I believe it might be the
case the Netscape does not allow applets loaded on the local system as
much leeway as they did at first. We need to update the examples for
the latest versions of the browsers, but this task is getting
complicated since we should update the examples for Navigator,
Communicator, HotJava and Explorer!

A common sandbox is greatly to be desired and I encourage you to
encourage the vendors to stick to the "write once, one anywhere" Java
paradigm. Please send a note to the browser vendors if you want to be
able to take advantage of a common Java sandbox.

In upcoming JDK releases, we will be providing a way for people to
configure the policy for their system so that particular applets will
be able to connect to particular hosts. We anticipate an early
access release of that in summer 1997.

Marianne

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