[icedtea-web] RFC: RH738814 - Access denied at ssl handshake

[Omair Majid]

On 09/22/2011 04:57 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>  [2011-09-19 17:53]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch should address RH738814 [1]
>>
>> The stack trace of the exception shows that code in
>> VariableX509TrustManager tries do show a prompt which needs all
>> permissions. Since the method call was originally from an untrusted
>> applet, these permissions are missing and a security exception is
>> thrown.
>>
>> Something along this line was anticipated earlier [2], but my fix
>> may have been too broad. So now that we have a stack trace, I have a
>> more focused patch. Any thoughts or comments?
>>
>> The patch is for HEAD, but applies to 1.1 as well. It should also
>> apply to 1.0 after trivial changes - though I am not sure if that's
>> something we should do.
>>
>
> Agreed. I am not sure how worthwhile it is to fix this in 1.0 either.
>
> Approved for 1.1 and HEAD.

Thanks; Pushed.

Cheers,
Omair