From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C42BBB81 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:06:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAJG6D6O001409 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:06:13 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10877 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:06:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (einhorn.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.8]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jAJG6Cdp001404 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:06:13 +0100 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: Received: from first.in-berlin.de (e178055100.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.55.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Debian-4) with ESMTP id jAJG6Bmv018963 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:06:11 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id D8E1B195AFA; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:05:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:05:32 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: Yet another OCaml Webserver?! (was: Re: [Caml-list] Yet another sudoku solver (838 bytes)) Message-ID: <20051119160532.GC471@first.in-berlin.de> References: <20051119150931.GB324@first.in-berlin.de> <42E4A821-E220-4463-ABAA-C33F6EDEE833@cs.unm.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E4A821-E220-4463-ABAA-C33F6EDEE833@cs.unm.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 437F4D75.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 437F4D74.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 ocaml:01 caml-list:01 solver:01 bandel:01 ocaml:01 buffer:01 libs:01 libs:01 re-implement:01 buffer:01 838:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.9 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO,PLING_QUERY autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 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 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