Allowing Java Applet to Access Sandboxed File on MacOS
Although the Java applet's days are numbered , I still need one of them to work on macOS at least until a new alternative is available - Medtronic's CareLink Personal file upload applet . Fortunately, Safari on MacOS is one of the operating system / browser combinations that both the applet's self-imposed, highly restrictive settings allow itself to run on, and that the browser itself allows to run Java applets. Note that specifically for this applet, as of this writing, those who have upgraded to macOS High Sierra (10.13.2) will need to modify the user agent using Safari's "Develop" menu to an older version. My current change to this - the OS X version - is as follows: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_2 ) AppleWebKit/604.4.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.2 Safari/604.4.7 After a recent update, either to macOS or the Java Runtime Environment, the applet kept reporting errors when attempting to perform the upload of history from my insul