In my SIGNED applet, I try to get an image:

  String pImage = "/images/myimage.gif";
  Image image = getImage(getDocumentBase(), pImage);

In this particular case, the document base is

  https://doc_domain/path/

(notice the 's' in https)

The codebase is a different domain:

 http://code_domain/path/   (no 's')

Now, when the applet runs, something quite unexpected happens: the
applet first tries to fetch the image from the server at
code_domain!!!. In its web log, i can see that it has tried to fetch

 http://code_domain/images/myimage.gif

then, a second later, it fetches

 http://doc_domain/images/myimage.gif

It has no effect to actually put an image file on the codebase server.
The image eventually diplayed is the right one - the one from the
doc_domain server.

I've tried it on several Java versions, and it appears to not do it on
versions 1.3 or lower, though I'm not quite sure about it.

Chris