Re: Signed applet - Any way to check if user will get the security popup?


Andrew Thompson wrote:

john.burton@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:

john.burton@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:
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Using web-start,
....
Webstart isn't really an option for this, the purpose of the applet is
to provide a feature on a webpage that needs a bit of interactivity

What sort of things are happening on the
other parts of the page? I got the impression
it might include other things which are hard
to support in pure Java (such as Flash or
modern video formats/codecs).

Ah it's nothing like that complicated and nothing very important!

I have a website for my world of warcraft guild with forums, and
several other database driven applications which are all somewhat
independent. I've made a web page which integrates the information from
each of those applications into a single summary for each resistered
user. I'm working on an applet which does some graphical displays of
screenshots and information in a nicer, more interactive format than is
possible with straight html... I might well have used flash for it
except that it costs quite a lot of money to get a flash development
kit as far as I can tell and I program java for a living so it's an
obvious choice for me.

One of the other things I have is a list of links to downloadable
addons to the game. It would be nice if the user's personal web page
could inspect their computer and find out if they already have various
addons installed and if so if they have the latest version. Obviously
to do this I would need a signed applet to be able to access their
disk. But it really needs to be an applet to integrate visually with
the rest of the information on the page. Because it's a fairly closed
user group I have no problem with using a self-signed certificate for
this application and asking people to choose to always accept applets
signed my myself. However if people don't do this, or if they choose
not to they'll get a popup from the applet every time the page loads
when it would be far better to simply not offer that facility.

I suppose I could rethink the whole thing and have a link to a webstart
application to check their addons, but it starts to get complicated
then for what are in some cases relatively unsophisticated users. It
would be much better to have a single page with an applet on from a
usability point of view.

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