From: timothy d. <mol...@ma...> - 2004-01-31 11:32:31
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at 3.53p EDT on 2004 January 29 Thursday Christopher Masi said: > For other coding novices like me out there... >=20 > When testing HTML code on OS X systems I noticed the following oddity.=20 > When I think about it from a security perspective, it isn't actually=20 > all that odd. Here goes... >=20 > Here is the directory structure in /Users/myusername/sites/ >=20 > test > test2 > cell457b.html (the original cell457b with codebase=3D"../jmol") > cell457b.pdb > jmol > JmolApplet.jar >=20 > Here is the odd part. If cell457b.html is "dragged and dropped" onto a=20 > browser (Mozilla 1.6, Safari 1.0.1, Camino 0.7, IE 5.2.2) the applet=20 > will load, but the pdb file will not load. Camino et al. briefly report= =20 > a security exception in the status bar. However, if I use the included=20 > Apache server to serve the files to myself=20 > (http://127.0.0.1/~myusername/test/test2/cell457b.html) both the applet= =20 > and the pdb file load properly. If the html file, the pdb, and the=20 > applet coexist in the same folder then both dragging and dropping and=20 > loading via the loopback (correct term?) address work without a problem. >=20 > So, if you want to test your files before uploading them to a server,=20 > you will have to activate your Apache server. >=20 you can always use the Open.. menu command (Cmd-O) to open your html file, and it will work with relative url paths. as easy as it is to activate apache on OS X, cmd-O is even faster! regards, :tim --=20 timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest |