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

[kevin D. white]

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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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