Applets with ability to open serversockets

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

Anyone done this recently? Been bloody ages since I have, but I need to get some applets to:

  1. open localhost:port
  2. connect to localhost:port

…with zero user-fiddling, beyond accepting a “yes/no” warning dialog.

Would really like to webstart it too…wondering if a webstart + signing + all-permissions-tag + applet-tag will “just Work”, or if the all-permissions doesn’t work with the applet-desc or some similar crap :frowning:

#2

Think this covers it
http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/SigningApplets

Looks like applet has to be signed with a real certificate & still gives a warning

#3

Followup:

  1. It seemed that plain unsigned applets were allowed to do this by default so long as they opened on localhost only (loopback). This is sensible, and cool.
  2. Applets broke in many horrid ways on Safari :frowning: - so we gave up in the end. Didn’t have time to debug Safari and / or Apple’s JVM to find out why and to make a workaround
#4

Please don’t spam. This app apparently has nothing to do with the actual thread beyond mention of the phrase “signed applet”.