Name

Net Permissions

Type

java.net.NetPermission

Name

There are three names associated with this class. specifyStreamHandler allows new stream handlers to be installed into the URL class. HTTP authentication (which is not actually implemented by default Java implementations) requires two permissions: setDefaultAuthenticator to install the authentication class and requestPasswordAuthentication to complete the authentication.

Actions

None.

Examples

// Allow a stream handler to be installed
permission java.net.NetPermission "specifyStreamHandler";

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