Tic Tac What?
Al,
Your July 99 Java@Work column "Building a Server Switchboard" was awesome. Our development team really learned a lot from it. I followed the instructions to build both the tic-tac-toe server and client. Everything worked fine in my VJ++ environment. However, when I tried to run the applet outside the J++, I got an error that said:
"Applet TicTacToe security. Couldn't connect to '172. xxx.xxx.xxx ' with origin from..."
Am I missing something there? Thanks in advance,
Man Lee
CCC Information Service
Man,
My guess is that you're trying
to connect to your server at 172.xxx.xxx.xxx but you're viewing the Web page as a local file or via the localhost alias. So, say the TicTac server is running on host darkstar. Then you must load the Web page as: http://darkstar/tictac.htm.
Why? Because browsers don't let you connect to a host unless it is your host. Otherwise, a malicious applet could connect to, say, a mail server and send threatening email, and thereŭd be no way to trace where it came from.<>
