154672 - 32bit exe files will not execute from browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Mark Burmeister]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    

I try to execute a exe file from mozilla 1.1 using the following code and get 
an error..
        netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege
("UniversalExecAccess");
        java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);

Has this been fixed in moz1.1 or is it in a future telease? 
I need to be able to open .exe files from Mozilla.  
The exception I get is java.security.PriviligedActionException 
<<java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run the above function on an winnt based machine

Actual Results:  Exception

Expected Results:  Notepad.exe should open

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine; reassigning to Security:General -

Comment 2

[Mitchell Stoltz (not reading bugmail)]

You can't enable Java permissions from JavaScript anymore - In Mozilla,
netscape.security.PrivielgeManager.enablePrivilege(), although it looks like a
LiveConnect call, enables privileges for JavaScript only, not for Java. I
believe the only way to do what you want to do is to write a small applet that
requests the necessary privilege and calls exec().