[Gllug] How to save page with java applet??

[Emon]

Paul Rayner wrote:
> 
> On 22 May 2006, at 22:14, Emon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The page loaded fine, I saved it, then disconnected, & tried loading 
>>>> the
>>>> page from my home folder, but mozilla says "Loading java applet failed"
>>>>
>>> Signed applets are normaly needed for one of two reasons:
>>> 1) The applet needs access to local resources
>>> 2) The applet needs to contact servers online other than the one from 
>>> which you loaded it.
>>> In the case of 1), seeing as you stated that the site was IE 
>>> oriented, the functionality requiring access to local resources 
>>> probably wouldn't work under linux
>>> In the case of 2), it won't work when you're not connected to the 
>>> internet.
>>> If you trust this applet, and want to try to run it offline, you 
>>> could try downloading the archive containing the applet, from:
>>> http://www.worldcupchart.com/wcup.jar
>>> and saving it in the same directory as you saved the html page. This 
>>> might work, but I can't verify it as I don't trust the applet, sorry.
>>>
>>
>> Yup it worked!! How did you know which file to download!! amazing, I 
>> can't thank you enough.
> 
> The html file contains the location of the archive to download in the 
> <EMBED> tag:
> 
> archive="wcup.jar"
> 
>> BTW when you said that you *DON'T TRUST THE APPLET* were you being 
>> cautious, or do you really think that there really might be somthing 
>> fishy about this applet.
> 
> Being cautious really. If you're coming from a Windows background, treat 
> a signed applet like you'd treat a ".exe" file on a website - don't 
> trust it unless you trust the source. Others may disagree, but I'd think 
> it very unlikely that this particular applet would damage your Linux 
> system. The domain appears to be owned by a real person, the site has 
> low traffic (http://extremetracking.com/open;unique?login=jong26) so is 
> unlikely to be malware (malware authors are usually pretty good at 
> getting traffic to their sites), and from what you say the applet 
> actually does what it claims to do. Finally, as always, if the applet 
> were attempt anything malicious there's a >99.9% chance it would be 
> aimed at Windows users.
> 
> If you're worried, you could always create another user account with 
> very limited priveliges, and run your browser as that user to run the 
> applet. The applet would then inherit only the limited privileges of 
> that user.
> 

Humm I see... :-) thanks for the tip

Thanks again
Emon
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