[thelist] Offering contracts: Opinions on Etiquette?

Ron White ronwhite at lists.evolt.org
Sat Nov 4 13:18:15 CST 2000


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A *real* simple example of why this is bad deals with databases. Most
developers password-protect and even encrypt their databases to secure their
data. This means that ASP must connect to the database using the
username/password that the database requires... which means those are in the
source code
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This would only be true if the developer was an incredibly bad coder... No
one would expose UserID and Password in a sample given to someone. Any good
coder has the UserId and PW stored in a separate piece of code, that can
easily be removed before showing the rest to an outside person, even better
would be using a .dll that the pages can call.

Ron





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