# Re: HTTPS URL Handler

Jeff Nisewanger (Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:31:12 -0700

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    Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:31:12 -0700

    From: Jeff.Nisewanger@Eng (Jeff Nisewanger)

    Message-Id: <199806031931.MAA25088@puuoo.eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, khetan@cmu.edu

    Subject: Re: HTTPS URL Handler

> Can you give a ball park estimate of when the following will be
> implemented ?? Is it likely to be in the JDK 1.2 production release ??
> When will this be available as a standard extension to release 1.1 of
> the Java platform ?? Frankly I need this now and will make my work so
> much easier.

This works today for HotJava assuming it is
is packaged with SSL support (which is optional). It also works
with recent versions of Microsoft IE and Netscape although your
applet may have to be downloaded via an https codebase URL (I'm not
certain about this but I remember this may be a restriction with Netscape?).

Jeff

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