Hello Marty, Thanks for advice. Honestly, I haven't considered this possibility, and now I am thinking why.
First, your suggestion presumes that the "other end webmaster" has to have at least an elementary understanding of Unix, permissions, and other command-line stuff which is, true, quite simple, but can make a FrontPage weekend user hysterically upset. Customers gone... Next, those who sit on a hosting package or run their dedicated server (which is a pretty cheap fun nowadays), can simply buy a discussion board software (maybe mine :)), and start building their discussion community - if they figure out how to upload clients' templates securely :)). So, I am afraid I have to live with the perspective of heavily loaded wires, alas :(. Sunday, March 31, 2002, 11:47:44 PM, you wrote: ML> At 07:46 PM 3/31/02 +0000, you wrote: >>I am writing a discussion board which can be used by several sites and which >>is backed with one and the same database. To make it look at each of >>participating >>site like this site's discussion board, I have to allow site owners to upload >>HTML header and footer which contain their basic graphical elements like >>navigation >>buttons, major links and the like. ML> Toomas, ML> Why not take a different approach? Write a tiny program for their servers ML> which does an LWP::get against your server to fetch the content from the ML> database, and insert it appropriately into a template which they are ML> responsible for and on a hardcoded path. This is the approach I take with ML> my product SIMPL that provides a similar service, albeit for website ML> creation. It'll also relieve you of the lion's share of bandwidth ML> considerations which might vary greatly from site to site you're serving, ML> and should insulate you from any security concerns with other designer's ML> HTML and (esp.) Javascripting. ML> hth, ML> Marty ML> -- ML> SIMPL-tm WebSite Creation: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ML> Complementary Color Picker: http://face2interface.com/WebSafe -- Best regards, Toomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
