Communicating to the world

reading from CGI programs

Press the query button and the applet below will fetch the system date from the server. The code for the applets below is in the file Urldemo.java.

The applet below attempts (but fails) to break applet security by trying to make a network connection to a foreign web server. A security exception will be raised and can be seen in the Java concsole of your browser.

You can type your own url in this version of the applet. But bear the security restrictions in mind.

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