Squid causes security exception in Java Applet ......

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Hi,

We experience a very peculiar behaviour of Netscape 3.0: When our Java
applet is run with a proxy (SQUID 1.0.12) turned on, we get a security
exception. When the proxy is turned off, no exception is raised.

This is rather strange and what's still stranger is that Netscape 2.0
does not show this behaviour!! We get no exception at all!

This is the part of the code which accesses an URL without our applet:

            file = "images/files_4.dat" ;
            url = new URL (applet.getCodeBase(), file);
            URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
            InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            dataInputStream = new DataInputStream(inputStream);

            [...]
            while (true) {
                temp = dataInputStream.readLine();

This is the exception:

# Security Exception:
socket.connect:www.dummy.com->www.dummy.com
# Security Exception:
socket.connect:www.dummy.com->www.dummy.com
# Applet exception: security violation: security.socket.connect:
www.dummy.com->www.dummy.com
netscape.applet.AppletSecurityException: security.socket.connect:
www.dummy.com->www.dummy.com
  at netscape.applet.AppletSecurity.checkConnect(AppletSecurity.java:454)
  at netscape.applet.AppletSecurity.checkConnect(AppletSecurity.java:398)
  at netscape.applet.AppletSecurity.checkURLConnect(AppletSecurity.java:475)
  at netscape.net.URLConnection.connect(URLConnection.java:70)
  at netscape.net.URLConnection.getInputStream(URLConnection.java:188)
  at WLoop2.GetFileNames(WLoop2.java:1284)
  at WLoop2.init(WLoop2.java:685)
  at netscape.applet.EmbeddedAppletFrame.run(EmbeddedAppletFrame.java:323)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:296)

Anyone any idea what we could do about that?

So who is the perpetrator: Squid, Netscape, JDK or do we do something
wrong in the above code fragment?

Thanks -- Tom

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Received on Fri Sep 27 1996 - 08:16:28 MDT