Comparing apples & oranges (was jsp vs php)

[Christos Ricudis]

Hello Yannis!

  On 16 Oct 01, Yannis Kotsinos wrote to Christos Ricudis with subject "Re:
Comparing apples & oranges (was jsp vs php)":

 YK> : Opoiadhpote lysh gia session handling
 YK> : sto application layer, einai katadikasmenh na pasxei apo ena
 YK> : swro problhmata (cookies poy kanoyn expire ktl).

 YK> poly swsta... kai ektos aytoy, fantasteite, w eseis
 YK> anypopsiastoi web developers, na mpei o ricudis sth
 YK> selida sas kai na exete empisteytei
 YK> thn efarmogh sas se cookies.
 YK> Eleg3te ta periexomena toy cookie poy 8a kanete request, mporei
 YK> na exei kana script embedded poy anti na kanete parse 8a ektelesete hihi
 YK> ;-P

Pote de me endiefere kai toso h 'security' pleyra toy zhthmatos, toylaxiston
apo ayth thn optikh gwnia. Epishs pote moy den katalaba thn olh fasaria poy
eixe ksespasei prin apo liga xronia sxetika me ta cookies poy 'pi8anon na
periexoun FRIXTA KAI BRWMERA BAKTHRIA AN8RAKA'. Oute pote eida kanenan na
prospa8ei na ektelesei ena cookie sthn client-side. Kata kairous yphrksan
merika krousmata epi8esewn se servers me diafores texnikes embedding, toy styl
"bla bla ; SELECT credit.card.number FROM user.database" (think SQL). Ayta omws
einai ka8ara problhmata kakou kai aperiskeptou parsing user-given dedomenwn.

To allo pragma poy den katalaba pote moy, einai giati sto sygkekrimeno xwro twn
computeradwn - kai sxedon apokleistika ekei - h *gnwsh* poy exei kapoios
sygxeetai me thn *kakh* xrhsh ayths ths gnwshs. Yphrksan diaforoi poy kata
kairous biasthkan na xarakthrisoun atoma (metaksy twn opoiwn kai emena)
"epikindynoys" aplws kai mono epeidh tyxainei na exw kapoies gnwseis, pragma
poy to briskw eksairetika hli8io ws nootropia. Oi giatroi gnwrizoyn POLY pio
epikindyna pragmata, giati toys empisteyomaste sxedon tyfla?

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