1. Does an applet always inherit the browser's proxy settings or is it based on the version ? If it does not, then won't most of the applets on the net fail to load ?
2. If an applet has to make a URLConnection to the net through a proxy, I would set the proxyHost and proxyPort System property to point to my proxyserver's host and port.
Now, if there are two applets on a page, and I set the proxyHost and proxyPort in one applet, would that be visible to the other applet as well ?