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Imagine you have two java apps on your pc. You want one to have full network access, but restrict the second one. Well, you can't, because application firewall
by abpavel 10y ago
Imagine you have two java apps on your pc. You want one to have full network access, but restrict the second one. Well, you can't, because application firewall sees both java apps as java.exe
- sk5t 10y agoThis seems more like a complaint about the Windows firewall... and most people don't care to restrict network access on a per-app basis anyway--plus, any application with access to other local resources could very likely find some way to send network traffic besides opening its own socket.
- ghurtado 10y agoBesides the fact that this is a very contrived example, and that this is not how I would go about managing firewall rules (why wouldn't you use ports / services? You trust the security of your PC on just the name of the application?), this is not true in many cases. To pick one: Eclipse (A Java app) does not identify itself as "java.exe".
- prodigal_erik 10y agoEclipse isn't a java app, it's a native app that happens to start a JVM that drives native widgets. If you ship a new platform tomorrow, and someone ports a JVM to it, java apps will Just Work, but eclipse still won't run until SWT and the launcher get ported.