Re: Re: adodb or DB_ado for vfp (i.e. foxpro) access linux->windows

Hi, Good question! It's as vulnerable as you want to make it, as you can 1. use https 2. authentication by ip (built-in already) or public/private key 3. encrypt the data using some method such as blowfish Or to put it another way, its as vulnerable as SOAP or XML-RPC. Personally, I only use this in an intranet situation, and we also block all access by IP. Regards, John "Ondrej Jombik" <nepto@pobox.sk> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0209090127030.5202-100000@Maxim.Platon.SK... > Maxim, 01:27:53 > 09. september 2002 (pondelok) > Greetings. > > > See http://php.weblogs.com/adodb_csv > > Requires a web server installed on windows, and we communicate using http > > between the linux and windows machines using serialize( ). Primitive but > > efficient. Use it every week. > > If I undestand correctly what does the thing above does, it seems to > be like remote instructions passed from computer one to second coputer, > where they are finally executed. All this is done via classical HTTP > protocol. > > So my question is: Isn't this extremly vulnerable? >