Message-Id: <199903251737.JAA15271@laguna.eng.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:37:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan Luehe <luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Signed Applets - Help!!!
To: java-security@java.sun.com, aferguso@bcit.bc.ca
Arron:
You need to use the Plug-in in order to run the latest
JRE from Java Software in your Netscape browser.
See
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/
for more information about the Plug-in, and
http://java.sun.com/security/signExample12/
for an example that uses signed applets with the Plug-in.
Jan
> Then I open the HTML file that points to the jar file (my tags are all
> correct), in Netscape 4.5 and I get the following error messages in the
> Java console window:
>
> Netscape Communications Corporation -- Java 1.1.5
>
> Type '?' for options.
>
> Symantec Java! ByteCode Compiler Version 210.065
> Copyright (C) 1996-97 Symantec Corporation
> # Error: Invalid Hash of this JAR entry (-7882)
> # jar file: C:\TEMP\jzipGE3D.TMP
> # path: model.class
> # Error: The certificate is not approved for the attempted application.
> (-8101)
> # jar file: C:\TEMP\jzipGE3D.TMP
> # path: C:\TEMP\jzipGE3D.TMP
> # Error: loading of signatures has failed (-1)
> # jar file: C:\TEMP\jzipGE3D.TMP
> # path: /F|/code/
>
> I have absolutely no idea and I would really like to be able to show my
> students how signed Applets work. The online docs are sketchy and all
> other instructors I know are not familiar with signed Applets (not to
> mention in 1.2). Please help!!!
>
> I'm running:
> - Windoze NT 4.0
> - Netscape 4.5
> -JDK1.2 (final release)