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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 ------------ Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 (208) 692-3308 eFax WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) -----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 _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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