At 8:07 AM +1000 on 2/10/00, Paul Sutton wrote:
Adrian: Anthony, I have been reviewing the things that are sitting around
on my hard drive here at home and discovered a file "NuParser.png" which
is a diagram of the conceptual foundation of NuParser. There are a
couple of things that concern me
At 1:11 PM -0800 on 2/10/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Eric: ... but script errors do happen,
and it is really nice to be able to
watch global variables.
Alain: Yes, one of HC's most endearing features is the
ease with which one can debug one's scripts. The
variable watcher, and the step-by-step
The FreeCard Collaboration Infrastructure is
(sort of) ready. Try it now:
http://giguere.dsc.uqam.ca/freecard/index.html
Things I know that need to be done:
Alain: I must be getting desperate. I am replying to
myself!
* All of the pages have to be re-touched ;
Alain: Much has been done,
At 10:06 AM -0800 on 2/12/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Uli: 1) It uses JavaScript. I'm paranoid.
Alain: Security-wise, JavaScript is no worse than
other languages, it seems to me. The most recent
incarnation of JS has been overhauled in terms of
security. Which is good, I am sure, but which caused
At 12:08 PM +0100 on 2/12/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
No FTP keeps a control connection open. Takes all of
PORT aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee,fff
RETR filename
to get a file with FTP. Still requires a seperate connection, though.
Which much be opened and closed after every file.
Does it take
Alain: Security-wise, JavaScript is no worse than
other languages, it seems to me. The most recent
incarnation of JS has been overhauled in terms of
security. Which is good, I am sure, but which
caused me many headaches this year.
Anthony: I've lost count of how many JS security holes
there
At 5:35 PM -0800 on 2/12/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
Alain: The latest incarnation of JavaScript is much
more security-oriented than all of its predecessors.
There is tainting and procedure authentification, and
all of that. With these features taken into
consideration, are you still insecure about
No FTP keeps a control connection open. Takes all of
PORT aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee,fff
RETR filename
to get a file with FTP. Still requires a seperate connection, though.
Which much be opened and closed after every file.
Does it take much time to open/close a connection? If not, we
