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MS security exception occuring in odd situations

Posted by Seth Johnson on June 05, 2001 at 2:10 PM

I'm trying to code a very simple Webpage Hit Counter in Java. There's a single data file, containing the number of hits, which is read from and written to by the applet.

I compiled and ran the applet fine from Netscape while it was sitting on my hard drive at home (I'm still running Windows 95, go fig. =). However, when I took it to school today and tried to run it on IE from one of the computers on the school network, I got an MS Security Exception. Looking through the help files, I found some code for asserting ms security permissions or something like that, added it in, recompiled and still got the error.

Now, I was under the impression that applets were allowed to communicate with files that lived in the same directory as the applets (as this hit file does). Am I wrong? Is there something else I'm doing wrong?