java.net.URL in applet

hi

I'm behind a router so I have an internal IP as well as an external IP.
I'm running an applet on an apache server that is doing an URL("http://"+host+"/config.xml");
the strange thing is, if i set "host" to my internal ip, everything works fine, but when i try
the external IP it's not working. the config.xml file doesn't even show up in my web server access log,
so it's like it's not even trying to access it.
when running the applet in eclipse though, it's able to get the url with any of the ip.
I was suspecting the browser java, but so far i've tested linux-firefox, windows-firefox, IE8 with same results. anyone got any ideas?

Are there any error messages in the browser's java console?

didnt think about viewing that. it says a lot...
starts with "java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.net.SocketPermission 213.21.66.155 resolve)"

An applet needs permission to connect to any site other than the one it was loaded from.

thanks, I'm experimenting with "grant". havnt got it to work yet. am I on the right track?

What is "grant"? Where is it used?

There are a couple of ways to give an applet permission:
sign its jar file
make an entry in the .java.policy file

the "java.policy.applet" file created by eclipse contains:
grant {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
this ought to solve the problem(?) but it doesnt...

however, for those with the same problem, i found a workaround solution.
when you mentioned "An applet needs permission to connect to any site other than the one it was loaded from.", it suddendly truck me.
the apache web server "ServerName" defaults to 127.0.0.1, when it can't determine the IP it it's running from. setting the "ServerName" to the external IP in the apache config file solves the problem!
now, i think I have a dynamic IP, but thats a whole other problem :)

If you copied and renamed that .policy file to .java.policy and put it the the user.home folder the jvm would use it.
After you put the file there use the policytool program to see if it finds the file.

System.out.println(System.getProperties().getPrope rty("user.home")); // show user.home