Agree - sorry, was I awak when I sent that last message?
Looks like Vlad's already promised to fix it for September 20th *heh*
Thanks Vlad!
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Colin Viebrock wrote:
> > It's likely that it already has been modified as a pure API command - the
> > logic checking (for proper period requirements) should be done client side
> > :)
>
> Ugh, but respectfully no. :)
>
> Part of the bloat in the Perl class is the amount of client-side checking
> that
> happens. The "opensrs_actions" hash, for instance, means that when OpenSRS
> wants
> to add a command to the API, they need to package a new release ... even if
> there
> are no other changes to the code.
>
> It'll also make it "safer" for people who fiddle with the code, since they
> don't
> have to worry too much about breaking any internal logic.
>
> Anyway, this is just based on my experience porting the class to PHP. My
> opinion
> is that the client should do some very basic sanity checking only (i.e., is
> this
> message valid XML?). The OpenSRS servers should do the rest.
>
> </twocents>
>
> - Colin
>
>