I recently had an unexpected experience with a well-known web host who purports to offer ColdFusion MX hosting. I was attracted by price and the basic set up was automated - a total breeze.
After getting an account set up on a shared hosting server - I discovered that the /flashservices/gateway/ servlet mapping was not operational. I informed them of this and asked them to fix it. After much bumbling around, which included several emails where they tried to explain that the reason I was getting a 404 was that those directories didn't exist, they finally came to realize that the servlet was disabled by default. They then proceeded to tell me that they wouldn't enable the servlet "because it affected all sites on the server". At that point, I initiated getting a refund. My question is, has there been any published information about the Flash Remoting servlet causing either security and/or performance problems? IMO, the web host was making an aribtrary decision based on ignorance and fear. I've been doing Flash Remoting for about 3 years now and I have yet to hear of any security exposure (beyond that of failing to adequately secure a web service). Jeff Battershall Application Architect Dow Jones Indexes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (609) 520-5637 (p) (484) 477-9900 (c) ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
