[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Apache: Front Page Extensions??

[sunflower1043@juno.com]

	Hello to all --

	This last week, with the idea that maybe the Judge was getting ready to
rule in the Microsoft antitrust case, I was reading the Halloween papers
( this is their 1-year anniversary.)  Could Microsoft's "Front Page
Extensions", or their "Active Server Extensions", be part of their effort
which they described in their Halloween paper ( 
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/ ).  In Microsoft's words, following
is an excerpt:

.....
"Beating Linux"

               "In addition to the attacking the general weaknesses of
OSS projects (e.g. Integrative / Architectural costs), some specific
attacks on Linux are:"

.....

"Fold extended functionality into commodity protocols / services and
create new protocols"

"Linux's homebase is currently commodity network and server
infrastructure. By folding extended functionality (e.g. Storage+ in file
systems, DAV/POD for networking) into today's commodity services, we
raise the bar & change the rules of the game..."

(end of Microsoft quote)

I am not knowledgeable about any technical server stuff, neither
Microsoft, Apache nor otherwise, so perhaps I am off-base about the
preceding.  -- Doug Darnold
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:39:58 -0600 Alton Pouncey <arpounce at earthlink.net>
writes:
> They are MS "extension" that you install into your web server in 
> order for
> FrontPage "bots" to work.  IMO they make users lazy in that they 
> don't have to
> learn to write cgi's or even learn how to FTP.
> 
> I have attempted on numerous occasions to install MS FP extensions 
> on Apache
> (actually succeeded once) but after reading a bunch of security 
> advisories re:
> FP extensions, I immediately removed them.
> 
> My advice is to research any and all advisories you can find re: FP 
> extensions
> and make your decision based on security.  If that means losing some 
> users
> because they want FP functionality but installing FP would 
> compromise security,
> so be it.  As a former webmaster for an ISP, I absolutely refused to 
> compromise
> server security for user convenience.  Thankfully, our president was 
> a sys.
> admin. by trade and agreed with me and backed me up.
> 
> I wish you well in your decision/quest,
> Alton Pouncey
> 
> P.S. Here is the URL to a user written howto for installing FP 
> (among other
> things) on an Apache web server:
> http://www.faure.de/Apache+SSL+PHP+fp-howto-1p.html
> 
> Brian Silvers wrote:
> 
> > hey everyone...
> > I have this user who is asking me if our web server supports Front 
> Page
> > extensions. What the hell are front page extensions? Anyways I am 
> running
> > Apache 1.3.9 on both a WinNT and Linux boxes and was wondering how 
> hard this
> > is to do to get apache to recognize whatever these front page 
> extensions
> > are.  The user sent me 4 links that are either very vague or 
> outdated or
> > have nothing to do with the OS's I am running.. Should I even 
> bother doing
> > this???
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian Silvers                    Internet Design Specialists in:
> > X-Net Web Systems       Cold Fusion, Databases,CGIs,
> > http://www.x-net.com      Graphics, Dynamic content, and more!
> > kungfusion at x-net.com
> >
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