[CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX (was: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon))

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/24/12 8:58 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: On 10/24/12 4:00 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Also, why wouldn't your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Gary McGath
On 10/25/12 7:37 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: You didn't answer the question -- why would you not have some sort of check on the AJAX application (or any application, web or otherwise) to do at least minimal sanity checking on the result of an external call? Because putting the onus of sanity

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/25/12 7:37 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: You didn't answer the question -- why would you not have some sort of check on the AJAX application (or any application, web or otherwise) to do at least minimal sanity checking on the result of an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Ross Singer
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second paragraph; the server, not the web page, should be fixed up to make things work sensibly. http://www.google.com/search?q=Postel's+law -Ross.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law On Oct 25, 2012 3:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second paragraph; the server, not the web page,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.comwrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law ++Sayre's Law

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law I'm guessing the other people participating in this thread have never had men with guns show up to take your server because of a 'security incident'. Or block your server's IP address, and then make