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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:20:48 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        paul@originative.co.uk
Cc:        marcs@znep.com, dg@root.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: BSD/OS compatibility (was: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf ..
Message-ID:  <19990312152048.A37814@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FE54@octopus>; from paul@originative.co.uk on Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:05:07PM -0000
References:  <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FE54@octopus>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:05:07PM -0000, paul@originative.co.uk wrote:
> I think Frontpage extensions are the thing that could trip us up. There's at
> least one prominenet UK ISP that offers Frontpage enabled Apache on FreeBSD.
> This is actually the market that FreeBSD targets.
> 
> Maybe Microsoft should be contacted to push for a FreeBSD binary.

Absolutely NO. Frontpage Extensions provide several security holes which
allows to overwrite any web file remotely or execute any program. This
holes are flaws in this product design and some of them can't be closed.

For remote WWW updating better use WebDAV, Microsoft support it too in
their WebFolders.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC>+ D A a++ C G>+ QH+(++) 666+>++ Y


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