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

[William Neumann <wneumann@cs.unm.edu>]

On Nov 19, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Oliver Bandel wrote:

> ... works well:
>
>    "CAN-2005-0490 - Buffer Overflows in cURL bei Kerberos und NTLM
>     Authentizizierung"

Fine.  So recompile it with something like this <http://www.acsa- 
admin.org/2004/abstracts/98.html>.  Buffer overflows are just one  
aspect of secure code, and there's no guarantee that a re- 
implementation of something like libcurl wouldn't be peppered with  
security flaws of a different color.

That's not to say it shouldn't be done.  And if it's a tool that you  
use a lot and that you think could be mode even better, then go for  
it, that's great.  Hell, I might even help out if the project  
interests me somehow.  But for now, if I need a one-off tool for  
doing something curl-esque, it's a much better use of my time to wrap  
an existing library.

William D. Neumann

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