# https from plugin

Ritchie Schacher (schac004@mc.duke.edu)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:57:58 -0400

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Hello,

I have two problems that are causing me big headaches:

1) When trying to fire up an applet in Java Plugin from a secure page
(its location is https://...), a malformed URL Exception gets thrown.
It appears plugin uses the URL of the page which embeds it. I don't
understand why plugin has to have this.

2) We cannot "surt to" an https page from plugin, using
AppletContext.showDocument(), again because of a malformed URL
exception.

These technical obstacles present a huge problem for the project we are
developing, as they leave us with unresolvable security risks. What
strikes me is that all we need is support for the URL, not for actual
URL connections. The URL essentially is just a string, used for
interaction between the browser and plugin.

Can someone please offer a solution for this issue??

Ritchie Schacher
Duke University Medical Center

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