[plug] RE: Frontpage Server Extensions

[Leon Brooks]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
>> 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).

No, the newer FP extensions are not considerably safer. They are DESIGN
INSECURE, which means that the design philosophy requires that they
never be securable.

> But does anyone know of any open source alternatives?

http://www.nimh.org/

..also, it has been rumoured that FP2000 works with the mod_dav
extension to Apache.