I have designed an applet which takes an address from a textfield and trys to match it with a list of addresses in a .txt file(address.txt) located in the same directory from which the applet was launched (via of course an html page on my web).

The problem is, I keep getting a IOEXCEPTION, which i believe is related to a SECURITY problem...
because when I try to view the html page and run the applet from Internet Explorer from my home computer, i get a Com.ms.security.SecurityAccess error

when I upload it to my website, (running unix), i simply get a
IOEXCEPTION error.....

So, how do I resolve this security problem? The .txt file is located in the same directory as the applet, so shouldn't it automatically have access to it?

Please help and explain to a newbie.