> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyi : jeudi 26 fivrier 2004 01:18
> @ : VNC List
> Objet : RE: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!
>
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, William Hooper wrote:
>
> > If one of the platforms is limited you need to make the rest of the
> > software respect that limitation so that you can remain cross-platform.
>
> (This is about password length.)
>
> There is the server end and there is the viewer end. Why can't the
> servers vary in the number of characters in a password? Does the viewer
> need to know the number of characters accepted by the server? Why can't
> the server just ignore trailing characters and the server always send what
> was entered?
I agree with you, Mike. This has nothing to do with cross-platform
compatibility. And it's not contradictory to cross-platform compatibility either.
IMHO, I would rather say this is just a matter of coding. The win version was based
on Unix version, so they probably tried to write similar functions for win version.
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