# How can I allow applet a partial access to clients computer?

Utpal & Lisa Ganguly (ukgan@euler.mcs.utulsa.edu)
Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:40:30 -0500

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    From: "Utpal  & Lisa Ganguly" <ukgan@euler.mcs.utulsa.edu>

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    Subject: How can I allow applet a partial access to clients computer?

    Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:40:30 -0500

Hello,

I am currently working on my MS thesis where the server and client
interchange there role during execution of the application. I need to send
the server(which is more than an HTTP server) a data file which gets
processed at the server end and the result is sent back. Currently, I run
a Java server and an applet embedded in the HTML page triggers a client
application to tell the server which file was sent to the server (the
sending process is where the glitch is and currently being done using ftp).

Could you suggest a way, such that I can allow the applet to have partial
access on client's machine. Of course, it will be up to the client to
decide and let the applet know, how much or what the client wants to make
visible. Can signed applet resolve this problem? If so, can I use it with
IE3.0 or 4.0?

Could I use ftp from within the web page to send a file to the server. It
really is not sufficient for this case to use POST or send character stream
to the server.

Any suggestion, pointers, or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Utpal Ganguly

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