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Subject:	Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:23:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: > The safest thing before running client code is to understand it intimately > and to be sure that it is free any possibility of trojan horses. (The sample > code I supplied is pure and safe.) 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 log, so the most recent message displays first. Worked great until I got a 401 from the firewall. Steve

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		Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
(...) 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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		Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
(...) 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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