From: Luke Palmer <lop@duke.edu>
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  Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:01:45 -0400

URL exceptions

it looks like rcd's original MyApplet.java uses a try-catch clause to test
if an image is actually there.  unfortunately, it doesn't work- i think the
URL constructor only throws a MalformedURLException if the client specifies
an unrecognised protocol, not a bad filename.

does anyone have any idea how we can get around this?  thanks.
-luke