One who cares so much about security should not use an address book, nor 
web-mail.

There's really no security concern here.

Regards,
D.

till ??????:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Michael Baierl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Ok,
>> now I verified the issue - all contacts are shown in a JavaScript
>> section of the page when a new mail is composed - this is not very smart
>> for two reasons. One has already been outlined - security - but the
>> other one is even more important - performance.
>>     
>
> Again, YOUR contacts show in the html source and you talk about
> security? Or am I mis-understanding an issue here.
>
>   
>> Imagine there are 500 contacts in the database - all of those will be
>> transferred whenever a mail is composed, which is not needed. Instead
>> the auto-completion should use an AJAX request back to the server and
>> don't search on the client side. Yeah, it will be a bit slower for the
>> end user to get suggestions on autocompletion, but the overall page will
>> load way faster!
>>     
>
> No, it's easier and less expensive to pull it once and so to speak
> "cache" them in the source code/clientside and perform the
> auto-complete without a server request. Otherwise it will be slower
> and more expensive as you hit the database or your LDAP directory for
> every key-event.
>
>   
>> Any plans to fix this in the next Roundcube release?
>>     
>
> As far as I can see, there is no bug here and nothing to be fixed.
>
> Till
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