# Re: Netscape Communicator/JDK1.1 Question...

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@Eng)
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:31:05 -0800 (PST)

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    Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 15:31:05 -0800 (PST)

    From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@Eng>

    Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator/JDK1.1 Question...

    To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, parag@www.qlcomm.com

> In Communicator, can an applet open a connection to a host, which is not
> the one from which it is loaded, if it has been digitally signed.
>

In general, yes, but there are a bunch of details that you have
to get right (for example, you'd need to have the certificate(s)
that contain the public key that signed the applet available to
the browser.) Also, the way that Netscape does this, you need to
actually modify the applet's code to ask for/be granted the special
permission to do something that an applet ordinarily can't do.

> I'm not even sure if this is the right forum(should I be asking Netscape).
> But if any of you do know the answer , the please reply.
> Do mark a CC: to parag@qlcomm.com

Actually this isn't the right forum :-) and you'll get a better answer
from Netscape. I don't know which email alias to use, but their
documentation is at
http://developer.netscape.com/software/signedobj/index.html

Marianne

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