Web Browsers and Anonymous Mail
Jeff Weinstein
jsw at netscape.com
Mon Feb 26 03:01:52 PST 1996
lmccarth at cs.umass.edu wrote:
>
> I wrote:
> # I would prefer not to reimplement SMTP using the Socket class in my own
> # applets. Ideally I'd like to have an applet that presents a form with some
> # entry boxes and check boxes, quantizes and encrypts the input according to
> # the check box settings, and spews the resulting byte streams to the MTA.
>
> Jeff Weinstein writes:
> > We do not curently allow Java to get access to our mail subsystem.
>
> Hmmm. Can I write an applet that reads form input, processes it, dumps the
> output to an applet window, and tells the user to cut & paste it into a
> Netscape mail sending window ? That would be a messier solution than I'd
> like, but still decent.
Forms and HTML pages are not exposed to Java either. For that you need
JavaScript. In a future release when JavaScript and Java can talk to
each other you will be able to do what you suggest.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw at netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
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