[mds] can't use RMI to connect to the server the code came from

[Gabe J. <joh...@cs...>]

I have a fairly simple client/server system that should be
communicating via RMI. We have apache running on mds.colorado.edu,
which hands out a jar 'mds.jar' to clients. The applet runs okay
until there is any RMI usage. I have a debugging statement that
System.outs the server it's looking for,
rmi://mds.colorado.edu/server, which is correct. However,
communicator (4.74 on Linux) throws an exception:

java.rmi.UnexpectedException: Unexpected exception; nested
exception is: 
	netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.Couldn't
connect to '127.0.0.1' with origin from 'mds.colorado.edu'.

I'm actually not entirely sure how to interperet this. I'm
assuming that it realizes that the code came from
mds.colorado.edu, but that it is being asked to talk to the
localhost.

It behaves correctly when the server and client are running on the
same host, and it behaves correctly through appletviewer.

Any ideas? If you want to look, the apache URL at the moment is
http://mds.colorado.edu/testing/ and our code is at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/mds/?cvsroot=mds .

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-gabe
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~johnsogg/