NODE ed69ee16Re: netscape mail starts java attachments upon get new mail...
Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>Tue, 10 Oct 95 06:35:00 PDT
> Java applets can't read /etc/passwd, and can't issue NIS requests unless
> they were downloaded from an HTTP server running on the NIS server
Oh, you mean like a mirror or local cache? (Sure, Rocky, never happen...)
> (actually, they can't do UDP at the moment, so that's out as well)
Even with TIRPC NIS is still UDP-only? Has NIS+ fixed this?
/r$
NODE d83adb3aRe: netscape mail starts java attachments upon get new mail...
Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>Tue, 10 Oct 95 09:23:40 PDT
On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Rich Salz wrote:
>
> Oh, you mean like a mirror or local cache? (Sure, Rocky, never happen...)
Mirroring, where the url used to access the data is not that used for the
original, could be a problem; caches that aren't mirrors and which keep
the original URL are ok. Whether mirroring is a problem in general is a
different subject.
Simon