Opening HTTP streams

Question

It would appear that the majority of my problem resides with Java's Security. I'm trying to open a website just to read. I don't care about forums, i don't care about displaying it. I simply want to read the text.
try
         URL page = new URL(rootPane.getOpenPathField ()); // Process the URL far enough to find the right handler
         URLConnection urlc = page.openConnection();
          urlc.setUseCaches(false);
//problem is with the buffer reader line.
         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlc.getInputStream()));
         String buffer = "";
         while (buffer != null)
          try
              System.out.println(buffer);
              buffer = br.readLine();
          catch (IOException ioe)
              ioe.printStackTrace();
              break;
     catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
          System.out.println(rootPane.getOpenPathField () + " is not a URL that can be resolved");     }
     catch (IOException ie)      {
         ie.printStackTrace();     }The Java console displays the following in the stack trace:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-2" java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.net.SocketPermission www.google.com:80 connect,resolve)
at TopoApplet.ArgTree.openURL(ArgTree.java:607)
If you need the full stack trace i'll be happy to provide it but i don't think what was ommitted to be terribly useful.

Answer 1

Yes, but for this to work, someone at the remote
computer will have to accept the signed applet to
give it access - and that doesn't seem very likely in
this scenario ;)The alternative is to diddle with the security policy on the machine where the
applet is running. Any scenario that relies on the applet calling something to
give itself more security isn't going to work. However if the user won't accept
a signed applet then are they likely to take a modified security policy file and
install it on their machine, so that they give permission to any applet at all
to do those things?
This thread has a rather extensive discussion
relating to what the poster wants to do:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=409835&
messageID=1803410I'm not reading that. Given the existence of this post, it's just a cross-post.