Re: btw

Emiliano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:33:15AM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote:

> Emiliano Heyns <[email protected]> writes:
> > Object ret = new XMLRPC("http://xmlrpc.xwt.org/RPC2/", 
> > "dns.resolve").call(new Object[] { host });
> > (rightfully) complains it cannot connect. Which is bad news for people 
> > behind a proxy,
> 
> We have to do this for security reasons.  Please see the reference.

I know, but if the RPC server is down, nothing works for me.

> > What about my earlier question? If we implicitly 'trust' the
> > connection to the server the xwar was loaded from, things like this
> > would still work even if the RPC server was offline.
> 
> Still vulnerable; see www.xwt.org/sop.txt in the section on
> "quick swap dns".

I am probably missing something; in what sense is trusting the
connection the xwar comes from different than trusting xmlrpc.xwt.org?

Emile

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