ORacle 8.1.5 Sockets and Java

I am trying to create a new java.net.Socket object from a Java stored procedure using Oracle 8.1.5 on Solaris. The Socket object is created correctly when the code is invoked external to the database. After load ing publishing the java code, a null pointer exception is generated by the following code:

  java.net.Socket sock = new java.net.Socket("my.server.com", 80);

The same behavior is exhibited by the java.net.URL.openConnection() method, as well.

I'm thinking that this is probably a security issue, but can't find any reference to accessing external network resources in the documentation that is available on OTN.

Any help would be appreciated.

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