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echo: nthelp
to: Paul Ranson
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2005-05-24 21:41:26
subject: Re: What`s wrong with Microsoft???

From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> So that's a specific limitation on your web app. Roll it out to 10000,
> 100000, 1000000 simultaneous users. Ah.
>

Nope. If you're doing simple lookups then caching data locally (e.g. price
lists etc) is better than chewing up the network round tripping fairly
static data. If however you're shuffling into into the db then possibly
massed ranks of db'es behind the scenes anyway.

Adam


> Paul
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:429365d5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>Paul Ranson wrote:
>>
>>>If your db connection is held in a session then I have a trival DoS
>>>opportunity. This is nothing to do with C++, rather with unsafe practices
>>>when writing web apps...
>>>
>>
>>Really? So given you have to login & be authenticated before the DB conn
>>is created within the session & that only one session can exist per user,
>>I am curious what this DoS attack wwill be.
>>
>>
>>Adam
>>
>
>
>

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