hi there,


I'm having a small problem here and hope that you guys can help me out.

I'm trying to set up a chatroom for my website. I'm trying to use a java applet that connects to any iRC server. I've found EIRC which looks very much like a great chatroom java applet.

Now the problem is that the java applet only works off an IRC server that has been set up on the same system (localhost).

In order to get that java applet to work for any other external IRC servers I would have to sign / certificate the java applet.

There was a lot of talk about microsoft sdk and windows platforms while I was googling around, yet I'm looking for some information on the web that tells me how to sign java applets via linux. I'm no java programmer, but I would really love to get that java applet to work with external IRC servers.

Has anyone ever had such simliar problem that java applets needed to be signed in order to work off another system? Thank you so much for any information I can get here!

I don't know too much about it but one thing I do know is a security restriction with applets is they are only allowed to connect to the server that they originate from.

A workaround is to have a middleman application orchestrating the connections for the applet, problem someone will know more though.