in reply to A Perl Web Browser Plugin
The Java plugin doesn't just prohibit access to the local file system, the standard library has a very sophisticated mechanism of permissions in the java.security.* package. This allows for very fine-grained permissions that can be set via properties. I've actually used the latter to run students' code on my machine ;) This all goes down into the JVM which is aware of these permissions.
To make a Perl plugin would probably mean a lot of work to build a perl interpreter that would support some kind of nontrivial security model.
Just my 2 cents, -gjb-
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Re^2: A Perl Web Browser Plugin
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2005 at 06:28 UTC | |
by Courage (Parson) on Dec 07, 2005 at 17:07 UTC |
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