Re: What's a "security violation: method verification error"?

Marianne Mueller (Marianne.Mueller@Eng)
Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT)

Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:20:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marianne Mueller <Marianne.Mueller@Eng>
Subject: Re: What's a "security violation: method verification error"?
To: java-security@java.Sun.COM, fufefa9@idt.net

You see this a lot with some of the later Navigators. I am puzzled
also. It must be their verifier is rejecting bytecodes (that it
shouldn't reject.)

I think it's a Netscape bug, but I know that isn't a good answer. You can
use the Java plugin to use the standard Java VM. See
http://java.sun.com/products/plugin

The verifier is explained in an (old) paper by Frank Yellin,
http://java.sun.com/sfaq/verifier.html

I'm sure that by now, Netscape has modified the verifier in many ways.