[thelist] ASP:: Personal Info > Write to Text or Email off?

[Chris W. Parker]

kevin,

someone please tell me if this is offtopic or not...

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what's the difference between storing a plain-text text file on a server
rather than a database? that seems pretty lame of them to insist that
there be no database but a text file is ok. dumb.

i'd vote for email off.

chris.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin D. white [mailto:simplecypher at bitshift.ws]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] ASP:: Personal Info > Write to Text or Email off?
>
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> I have a client who is in a bind and in turn is putting me in
> a bind....
>
> The client's IT department absolutely, categorically, under
> pain of death
> refuses to allow the Web server to access a database of any
> kind.  Doesn't
> matter what type of database or if the database is local on the box or
> remote.  No database, period, period.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> I have a form that collects personally identifiable information (Name,
> email address, phone number).  I Really want to store that data in a
> remote, secure database.  Since I can't do that, my client wants me to
> store that personal data on a SINGLE TEXT FILE on the server.  I am
> lobbying very hard to just email that stuff off right to client.
>
> I worried about the following:
> 1. File locking - The site is in ASP 3.0 on Win2K
> 2. Security - The file is plain-text
>
> Am I crazy?  Am I paranoid?
>
> Did I mention this client's box has already been hacked once before?
>
>
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