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A _well managed_ IIS box is rather secure. Things like Nimda and Code Red
have given IIS a bad name, but there were fixes available for these issues
long before they became a problem. There have been memory leaks in certain
plug-ins for IIS (.HTR comes to mind) but any web-facing IIS box should have
had those extensions removed before it was placed on the net. Unfortunately,
like more MS stuff, IIS is shipped with everything enabled, you must disable
what you don't use. If you've done your homework then an IIS box is about as
secure as any other web server out there.

As for ASP on another server, yes there are several non-IIS implementations
of ASP. However, unless you are using ASP solely for stupid things like
changing font sizes dynamically they are useless. ASP is mostly a gateway to
backend processing, and that is mostly (entirely) dependent on COM. Add in
database access and you need ADO and OLEDB. By the time you've added all the
necessary pieces to make a real ASP application work you've gone beyond what
these other implementations support.

-Walden


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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 19:09
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: access as/400 database files w/Visual Basic 6


> From: Walden H. Leverich
>
> Nope, it's all server based. By the time the clients gets anything
> it's all pure HTML.

Ah.  Good.  And there are secure (i.e., non-IIS) servers now that handle
ASP, right?  I understand that there's an Apache ASP product out there,
among others.

Joe

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