Re: Unsecured server in applets under Netscape

[th () NEXTEL NO (Tor Houghton)]

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