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Re: Front Page bashing a la Max From Wayne at Frequent Flyer & VacationMiles Awards by HMI, Inc. on 20 Dec '98 replying to Re: Front Page bashing a la Max posted by Jim Can any deadlock folks (or others) recommend any easy to use html editors, i.e. not FrontPage? >>Looking over the convoluted code of Front Page sites, >>I find no obvious security breaches. > >No, the security breaches aren't in the HTML code, it's just plain >ugly. > >>May we gather that Front Page designed sites are in >>no way a security hazard - rather it's the act of setting >>up a Web server to accommodate FP pages that creates >>the hazard? > >Precisely. > >>If so, is it a general matter of how FP accommodation >>forces the administrators to configure the server, or >>specific keyholes? > >If you know FrontPage well enough, you can close the breaches quite >easily. The trouble is that FP is marketed to people who don't know >a hell of a lot about it, so they just go with the defaults, >whereupon FP happily configures the server with the front door wide >open. Well, that's what I've heard, anyway, I can't confirm it first >hand because you'd have to chain me to a chair and pull my fingernails >before I went anywhere near it... >

HTML Editors - Jim - 20/12/98

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>Can any deadlock folks (or others) recommend any easy to use >html editors, i.e. not FrontPage? > > > > > > >>>Looking over the convoluted code of Front Page sites, >>>I find no obvious security breaches. >> >>No, the security breaches aren't in the HTML code, it's just plain >>ugly. >> >>>May we gather that Front Page designed sites are in >>>no way a security hazard - rather it's the act of setting >>>up a Web server to accommodate FP pages that creates >>>the hazard? >> >>Precisely. >> >>>If so, is it a general matter of how FP accommodation >>>forces the administrators to configure the server, or >>>specific keyholes? >> >>If you know FrontPage well enough, you can close the breaches quite >>easily. The trouble is that FP is marketed to people who don't know >>a hell of a lot about it, so they just go with the defaults, >>whereupon FP happily configures the server with the front door wide >>open. Well, that's what I've heard, anyway, I can't confirm it first >>hand because you'd have to chain me to a chair and pull my fingernails >>before I went anywhere near it... >> >