Re: how we will program in the future -- MIDRANGE-L

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Joe Pluta wrote:

True, but the _minimum_ you would want to do is have a firewall that
only allowed port 80 connection (443 for ssl) from the outside.
If you're more concerned, you'd add a reverse-proxy so only valid HTTP
commands flowed.

And if you're really good you'd add a security appliance that looked
at the outbound html, knew what was valid as inbound responses to each
individual
html page and validated the http inbound requests against that.

How much time and expense would that add to my $500 Best Buy computer?

Your $500 Best Buy computer isn't suited to be a industrial strength web server ... plus, MOST people who get computers from Best Buy aren't buying them to be web servers. If they become webservers it's probably pure accident.

If someone is buying a system to be a web server, they should have enough networking skills to properly secure it and keep it current with all applicable security patches.

Unless, of course, I'm missing the point (wouldn't be the first time).

david

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