Re: JavaScript to grab email (fwd)

• To: "Robert S. Muhlestein" <robertm@teleport.com>
• Subject: Re: JavaScript to grab email (fwd)
• From: Brian Clapper <bmc@telebase.com>
• Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:47:53 -0500
• Cc: George Spafford <gspaff@execpc.com>, "Daniel L. Smith" <dls@JavaJoint.com>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <63858962@toto.iv>

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert S Muhlestein <robertm@teleport.com> writes:

Robert> Have you done this?  Has anyone else?  "Hooked on Java" and all the
Robert> other info I get from Sun and others suggests local drive read and
Robert> write access is only available to "trusted" applets (presumably a
Robert> future Netscape pref setting).  Do you have any proof to support
Robert> your claim (besides the recent posting about connecting to any
Robert> host, which, I agree, is very scary).

JavaScript != Java.  They're two different things.  In Netscape's own
words:

        Built-in JavaScript: Netscape Navigator now includes a built-in
        scripting language, called JavaScript. JavaScript, based on the
        JAVA language, extends and enhances the capabilities of HTML
        documents. JavaScript supports most of JAVA's expression syntax and
        basic control flow constructs, but without JAVA's strong type
        checking and static typing. JavaScript is embedded in HTML
        documents with a <SCRIPT> tag, and there is no compilation needed
        to run the script.
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