001/* NetPermission.java -- A class for basic miscellaneous network permission 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 2000, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package java.net; 039 040import java.security.BasicPermission; 041 042 043/** 044 * This class is used to model miscellaneous network permissions. It is 045 * a subclass of <code>BasicPermission</code>. This means that it models a 046 * "boolean" permission. One that you either have or do not have. Thus 047 * there is no permitted action list associated with this object. 048 * 049 * The following permission names are defined for this class: 050 * 051 * <ul> 052 * <li>setDefaultAuthenticator - Grants the ability to install a facility 053 * to collect username and password information when requested by a 054 * web site or proxy server.</li> 055 * <li>requestPasswordAuthentication - Grants the ability to ask the 056 * authentication facility for the user's password.</li> 057 * <li>specifyStreamHandler - Grants the permission to specify the 058 * stream handler class used when loading from a URL.</li> 059 * </ul> 060 * 061 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) 062 */ 063public final class NetPermission extends BasicPermission 064{ 065 static final long serialVersionUID = -8343910153355041693L; 066 067 /** 068 * Initializes a new instance of <code>NetPermission</code> with the 069 * specified name. 070 * 071 * @param name The name of this permission. 072 */ 073 public NetPermission(String name) 074 { 075 super(name); 076 } 077 078 /** 079 * Initializes a new instance of <code>NetPermission</code> with the 080 * specified name and perms. Note that the perms field is irrelevant and is 081 * ignored. This constructor should never need to be used. 082 * 083 * @param name The name of this permission 084 * @param perms The permitted actions of this permission (ignored) 085 */ 086 public NetPermission(String name, String perms) 087 { 088 super(name); 089 } 090}