Re: [xwt-users] xwar file launch from IIS??

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:01:20PM +0100, Charles Goodwin wrote:

> >It's still little help for people wanting to use it with IIS, though.
> 
> I dunno, I mean, all you have to do is start it up on an alternative 
> port to those which IIS uses and point your links at that port.

With absolutely zero facilities to recover from failure. Nice for
testing, not for production IMO.

> Besides, it's probably a _good thing_ that use of IIS is discouraged. 
> I've had nothing be bad experiences with it and it's horrendously 
> apathetic approach to security.

In it's default configuration up to and including IIS 5.0, yes. IIS can
be locked-down nicely in the hands of a capable admin, and IIS 6.0 has a
lot more restrictive default config. And it's certainly possible to
deliver a apache config that's vulnerable to all sorts of problems
(although ancient versions of PHP is what I've seen most, and that's not
really apache's fault, but I do count it towards 'misconfigured
webserver').

At the end of the day, it's just a webserver, and one that a lot of
people use, by choice or by command. If we can support these people with
little effort, why not?

-- 
Emiliano