Re: tools for programming applets
horos22 wrote:
I was looking to do some quick java [sic] development of applets. Here's my
situation:
1. I have a static server (ie: [sic] that I cannot touch) which serves my
client data (and applets).
2. a bare-bones client programming setup (vim and java [sic] compiler)
What I was hoping to do, therefore, is hijack the applets that are
coming from the server, and replace them with my own, compiled ones,
and hook the browser in such a way that when the applet is asked for,
my applet fires instead (hopefully in debugging mode) using the data from the server as input.
Surely this is a common enough situation that there are standard
firefox plugins to do this..
Or is it? In any case any, help on this would be most appreciated.
No, applets are designed to load only from their own server. You'd have to do
some rather funky and heinous man-in-the-middle attack on your own server, and
I'm not even sure that would work. In any event, it's not only very far from
a standard or common situation, it isn't really even supposed to be possible.
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