Re: JDBC Thin Driver

Note also that the restriction on database and web server being the same machine only applies to applets (for the normal security restriction reasons related to network connections). I have used the JDBC Thin driver from a Java application installed on my client machine with no problems (assuming no firewall gets in the way, but that's a different story ...).

Steve Phelan wrote:

> Note that you can use a 'proxy' set-up to get around this problem.
>
> Steve Phelan.
>
> John F. Keaveney wrote in message <69b7uu$5ch$1_at_prefetch.san.rr.com>...
> >Realize that the 100% pure thin drivers can only open databases on the
> >server
> >from which the driver was downloaded, e.g. the web server and the database
> >must reside on the same system.
> >
> > John
Received on Wed Jan 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CET