Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hmm, I suspect I detect the sounds of the square wheel being reinvented. > > Very helpful, thank you, Steve - Now how about pointing out in which > direction the round wheels are kept, and what their monikers are? > I think someone has already pointed out netstrings, which will allow you to send arbitrary strings over network connections deterministically. I'm afraid for the rest it's just a matter of encoding your information in a way that you can decode without allowing a malicious sender to cause arbitrary code to be called.
The issue with pickle is that it's way too general a mechanism to be secure in open network applications, so a suggestion to beef up its security was misguided. Trying to "beef up pickle's security" is like trying to make a shotgun that can't kill anything. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
