Re: Unsecured server in applets under Netscape

From: Tor Houghton (that_private)
Date: Thu Feb 04 1999 - 02:58:17 PST

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    On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Giao Nguyen wrote:
    
    > Just for kicks, I wrote a sample applet that listened on a socket. I
    > discovered that when the applet was loaded under Netscape (as tested
    > with version 4.5), any hosts could then connect to the machine running
    > this applet. I won't bore anyone with the code because it's so trivial
    > that a novice to Java should be able to write it with ease after
    > reading some documentation.
    
    This is not specific to 4.5. I am running 4.07, and it displays the same
    behaviour.
    
    Regards,
    
    Tor Houghton
    



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