On Mar 24, 2:10 am, i...@borovkov.com wrote:
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Why?  Note that code can be signed for free.

Andrew T.

I don't know much about the permissions unsigned WebStart apps have, but it
seems reasonable that they would be prohibited from enquiring what network
interfaces are available.  If so then I doubt whether there is any way you can
do this.

But what I wanted to ask is: why do you want it ?  I can't think of much use
for that information, and -- even if Java made it available to your restricted
application -- the data isn't likely to be much use or very reliable.  For
instance the machine I'm typing into thinks it knows what its numeric IP
address and hostname are, but neither the IP nor the hostname are of any use at
all outside my immediate LAN (and wouldn't necessarily be of any use even
inside the LAN except that I like to use a very static local configuration).
If your application were running on this machine, then even if I were willing
to let it read that information, I can't think of anything obviously useful it
could do with it.

   -- chris