From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> > But I was saying that if you implement a class in C so that you now have
a
> > new function, when they do this in ASP (create a new function) isn't it
> > usually part of some dll?
>
> Sorry, I've never done any ASP (hence the vagueness) so I can't really
say.

I'm not explaining it right. I don't mean that when you use ASP to create a
class, I mean when you create a new asp function, something that MS would
add to asp not something a user would write.

> I know I could do that in PHP, VB script, JScript etc. without any
external
> DLL's, right in the script code.

Yes and with that website you linked to I think it can be done using asp as
well but that's different from a native function which is where I was
headed, basically the code for the dll that I posted was just a wrapper to
access a native function.

> Good thing to know how sorting works - not so good thing to have to always
> write the algorithm from scratch.

Yes I agree, course with C++ you could just make it part of your own custom
lib so you'd really only be writing it once. 

> The one to which you have the code seems harmless to me, I'd have no
problem
> allowing it to be used. Also, since the *other* DLL (VB runtime or
something
> like that) is from MS, I don't think it'll be a problem.

That's the part that makes me nervous, usually there should be some input
checking before passing untrusted input to that "other MS" dll.

> ...assuming that the home made stuff isn't ridiculously easy to hack
because
> you missed something obvious that MS has learned the hard way seven years
> ago... ;-)

Which probably makes it a good idea to post the code so others can review
it? 

Geo.

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