On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:08:37AM -0800, Dario Alcocer wrote: > Given PHP's notorious lack of security and buggy (nonexistent?) support > for Unicode, are there any other web application platforms that folks > here have worked with and can recommend? > > My interest is in putting together a couple of small web applications > using Apache 2.x for my personal use that won't be susceptible to PHP > exploits, and I'd like to support Unicode while I'm at it. > > I've tried Zope and Plone, but both seem overkill for the kind of small > web applications I'd like to write. PHP would be a good choice for > these, but I'm willing to deal with its security problems. > >
I use this: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tclhttpd/ and this: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ It lets me do simple things easily and more subtle stuff sort of easily ... not hard for sure. If I need to give a visitor any power, I can give him a safe Tcl interpreter, which is like having a language available in a safe root jail. You can look at 10 minutes work at http://68.6.213.35:8015/. I just wanted to show some friends some photos, and I haven't bothered to take them down. I've been experimenting in my nonexistent spare time with using Tclhttpd as a C/S database engine. Why rewrite all the connectivity stuff when it's right there? Anyway, Tcl's Unicode support is legendary, ans security is easy to enforce with safe interpreters, if you need to give the user anything, which you might not. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
