Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Re: [android-developers] Network Class Loader

You really don't want to do this, it won't work (because Dalvik is not
something that takes a jar) and is horrible security practice.

In general, you should always be very skeptical when you run code you
got from somewhere else: big security problems pop up.

Kris

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjarnic@gmail.com> wrote:
> couldn't you download a jar or class file other ways then use this to load
> it?
>
> On Jan 8, 2013 9:19 AM, "Mark Murphy" <mmurphy@commonsware.com> wrote:
>>
>> You mean, besides the fact that URLClassLoader doesn't work with
>> Dalvik files (AFAIK) and that loading a library directly from the
>> network is totally insecure?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > Dear All,
>> >
>> > I am just read:
>> >
>> > Provides a simple ClassLoader implementation that operates
>> > on a list of files and directories in the local file system,
>> > but does not attempt to load classes from the network. Android
>> > uses this class for its system class loader and for its
>> > application class loader(s).
>> >
>> >
>> > http://developer.android.com/reference/dalvik/system/PathClassLoader.html
>> >
>> > Does this mean I cannot use the URLClassLoader on Android with
>> > URLs that have for example the schema http:// ?
>> >
>> > Bye
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