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(...) One thing worth noting, just as a general side comment about powerful string- processing languages like Perl and Lisp... When someone gives out a program which connects to some server, it's only safe as you trust the code/server combination. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Thank you for pointing that out. I had forgotten about eval, and did not realize the potential for trouble with it. I've got a simple client developed in MS-VB, which just polls and displays the feed, inserting the messages at the top of the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Corporate firewall? What do you figure that it didn't like? The repeated periodic polling, and it blocked you from doing that after it exceeded some count? What happens when you set the polling rate to be less frequent? Does your firewall also (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The firewall seems to periodically require re-authentication to get out. But it's not clear what strategy it uses to determine when to re-authenticate. It's not elapsed time since last authentication, or elapsed time since last request. It (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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