Re: accessing servers from the pivot applet

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

KC,

Did you end up getting this working?  I've had weird behavior with Yahoo
Pipes in the past where the response was fine when the user agent was a
browser, but not when the user agent was the JRE.

-T

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Greg Brown <gk...@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi KC,
>
> I'm moving this to the user list since it is more of a user question (the
> dev list is for issues related to the development of the platform itself,
> not applications that use the platform). You should probably subscribe to
> the user list as well - otherwise, you may not see any future responses.
>
> You'll need to sign your applet in order to allow it to communicate with
> Yahoo Pipes. In general, an unsigned applet can only make connections to the
> server it was downloaded from. However, if the server you want to connect to
> has a crossdomain.xml file, you can connect to it with an unsigned applet.
> Unfortunately Yahoo Pipes does not, so you'll need to use a signed applet.
>
> See this page for more info:
>
> https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/#CROSSDOMAINXML
>
> Hope this helps,
> Greg
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 3:24 AM, Koen C wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I starting some tests with apache pivot.
> >
> > And I would like to access a server, I'm using the example from the site
> and
> > thus I'm connecting to pipes.yahoo.com.
> >
> > My code
> >
> >> public void startup(Display display, Map<String, String> properties)
> >
> > throws Exception {
> >
> > System.out.println("tuut");
> >
> > WTKXSerializer wtkxSerializer = new WTKXSerializer();
> >
> > GetQuery getQuery = new GetQuery("pipes.yahoo.com", "/pipes/pipe.run");
> >
> >        getQuery.getParameters().put("_id",
> >> "43115761f2da5af5341ae2e56a93d646");
> >
> >        getQuery.getParameters().put("_render", "json");
> >
> >
> >
> >        getQuery.execute(new TaskAdapter<Object>(new
> TaskListener<Object>()
> >> {
> >
> >            @Override
> >
> >            public void taskExecuted(Task<Object> task) {
> >
> >             System.out.println("task executed");
> >
> > System.out.println(task.getResult());
> >
> >
> >> //listView.setListData(JSONSerializer.getList(task.getResult(),
> >> "value.items"));
> >
> >                //loadingLabel.setVisible(false);
> >
> >            }
> >
> >
> >
> >            @Override
> >
> >            public void executeFailed(Task<Object> task) {
> >
> >             System.out.println("execute failed");
> >
> > System.out.println(task.getFault().getMessage());
> >
> >            }
> >
> >        }));
> >
> >    ...
> >
> >
> > In the 1.6.0_19 console I get the following logging
> >
> > execute failed
> > access denied (java.net.SocketPermission pipes.yahoo.com:80connect,resolve)
> >
> > On the net I found some information pointing me to the catalina.policy
> file
> > so I added the following with no result.
> >
> > grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/pivot-tutorials/-" {
> >    permission java.security.AllPermission;
> >    permission java.util.PropertyPermission "catalina.base", "read";
> >    permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:8080", "connect,
> > resolve";
> >    permission java.net.SocketPermission "pipes.yahoo.com:80", "connect,
> > resolve";
> > };
> >
> > grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/pivot-tutorials/lib/-" {
> >    permission java.security.AllPermission;
> >    permission java.util.PropertyPermission "catalina.base", "read";
> >    permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:8080", "connect,
> > resolve";
> >    permission java.net.SocketPermission "pipes.yahoo.com:80", "connect,
> > resolve";
> > };
> >
> > I also read somewhere that this wil never work from inside an applet.
> >
> > Any help or clue would nice.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > KC
>
>