Re: Yet another OCaml Webserver?! (was: Re: [Caml-list] Yet another sudoku solver (838 bytes))

[Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:55:57AM -0700, William Neumann wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> 
> >But where's the OCaml programmers community (is there something  
> >like that?),
> >showing that it also goes in other ways?
> >
> >When asking here for databases and other stuff, often comes the
> >answer: try to use <xyz> library and write a C-binding.
> >
> >Nice idea, but too often most of the libraries are buggy and
> >many of them struggle with Buffer Overflow (and similar) problems.
> >
> >For example pcre-lib, curl-lib, a lot of the graphic-format libs, ...
> >...even cryptographic libs... where you send your credit card
> >informations through the network... well....
> 
> Well, there are a number of reasons for this.  The biggest, I would  
> guess is time.  Seriously, why would I want to re-implement, say,  
> libcurl when one already exists and works well?
[...]

... works well:

   "CAN-2005-0490 - Buffer Overflows in cURL bei Kerberos und NTLM
    Authentizizierung"



Ciao,
   Oliver