I wouldn't do it. The reasons are obvious. I would find out specifically what objects / methods they are wanting to allow access to, and I would build an API to give access only to those objects / methods. Open it up as a web service API and do it right.
-- Jim Rising Serial Entrepreneur Software Engineer Web Developer "Knowledge work requires both autonomy and accountability." On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Ian Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did I get your attention? Luckily these are read-only queries, but still! > > I have a meeting this afternoon to discuss reworking/developing an > interface to allow anonymous, anybody in the world, users to develop add > hock queries on a respectably large database. This database gets about > 2.5 million transactions, and growing, a year and has been around since > 1973. It is public data, so we need to provide public access to it. We > would like it to be self service public access so the public can stop > bothering us for the data and we can spend more time on fun projects :) > > There is currently a form based interface, but it has serious > limitations and is no longer serving its role well. So this meeting is > to discuss what to do about this and how much time and effort it might > take. I am soliciting you all for ideas I may be overlooking on > possible solutions and|or gotcha's for something like this. So fire > away please. > > Thank You > Ian > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321918 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
