for the brave programmers only....i need a bit of help

[zskillz]

here's the short of it... I'm using java to write an applet
that applet is supposed to read a text file that is on the server in which the webpage that contains the applet resides...

here's the problem...
I've done my research for the last 2 hours at various java sites, and it is clear that applets are not intended to be able to read text files on their host machine (this could lead to serious security breaches...)
however, i couldn't find anywhere where it absolutely said "they CANNOT do it"...

I want my applet to be able to read a simple text file and output some of the data in a text field, but I'm getting an IOException problem...

can anyone puhleease help me out here???
thanks
-Z

[flea]

well, im not a programmer but if this is what you are looking for it might be of some help.
http://www.cipherwar.com/fight/texts/texts.html

It's not my site or my applet, but if you e-mail them nicely they might let you use it or tell you where they got it from.

Actually, thinking about it, im not sure if it actually displays text files, but they look like text files.

[zskillz]

thanks for the link.. after looking it over, i'm pretty sure that that isn't a java applet anyway (it's either javascript, flash, or both...)

thanks though...

anyone else??
-Z

[zskillz]

no one brave enough???
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
-Z