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If I want to distribute a Java game applet and let many sites host the applet, how can I maintain a common high score list?

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If I want to distribute a Java game applet and let many sites host the applet, how can I maintain a common high score list?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=279302 Created: Dec 15, 2000 Modified: 2000-12-16 06:51:36.895 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) As long as the applet is untrusted, the only way you can do this is through sending the new high scores through the Applet context’s showDocument(): getAppletContext().showDocument(url, “_blank”); You would need to encode the name, highscore, and possibly the host as part of the URL: http://www.foo.bar/highscore?u=foo&s=5000 In the page that came up, you would then need JavaScript to auto-close the window.