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

[Nicole P]

How about this?

Write to a XML file and once in a while, get another process to pull that
XML file off the web server, and once the data is transferred elsewhere (you
choose where), then you reset that XML file to nothing.

If your client can run a little web server on his desktop (if he's allowed,
that is...), even if it's just PWS, even if that little web server cannot be
reached via the net (as long as it can reach the net), then you can automate
that process. Your client could end up with a nice little Access database on
his own desktop.


----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin D. white" <simplecypher at bitshift.ws>
>
> That certainly would help the problem of the file remaining open for long
> periods of time. I will implement your suggestion if I have to use a text
> file.  But would you really store personal info in a text file on the same
> box as the Web server?  From a security standpoint Email has got to be the
> safer of the two.  This is just so frustrating.  I can't fathom why my
> client thinks a text file is okay if a database is not.