[plug] RE: Frontpage Server Extensions

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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Phil Homewood wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>
> > Dean Hollister wrote:
> >
> > > What is the possibility of installing the Frontpage Server 
> Extensions on
> > > the National Machine?
> 
> Nil, if it were my decision.
> 
> > > This would make my job of updating pages *so* *much*
> > > easier. I do realise there are some security concerns, but 
> this could be
> > > overcome by the use of firewalling the Frontpage ports if needed
> > 
> > No-can-firewall.  "Frontpage port" is 80.  HTTP-PUT.
> 
> Not to mention the fact that half the security problems with the
> FrontPage Abortions over the years have been related to methods
> like GET and POST....
> 
> The FP Abortions need to die the painful death they deserve.

They *have* improved, actually.  The original versions were cluelessly
written and a dog to install, but the current versions are
considerably safer (though still a dog to install, if you want it to
work with suexec).

But does anyone know of any open source alternatives?  The two things
that Frontpage + FP Server Extensions can do that no open source
product that I am aware of can do are:

(a)	Easy remote editing of files.
(b)	Automatic generation of navigation buttons etc.

I would be interested to hear of any alternative solutions that people
know of.

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