Re: Really auto autoloaded modules

[Dan Sugalski]

At 07:02 PM 2/5/2001 -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
> > I'm fine with silly things, it's dangerous things I don't much care for.
> > Which isn't to say I'm against loading remote program code, I just think
> > this isn't the way to do it.
>
>use autoload { Bar => 'uddi://blah/some/Bar' };
>
>(here I take a big swill from the web services koolaid)

I'm not sure it was just web services in that koolaid, Nat...

>WSDL + UDDI + SOAP = ability to query a remote server for the methods
>                         it provides, then call those methods
>
>You wouldn't even need to have a local copy of the module, or compile
>anything from the remote server.

With, unfortunately, a security hole big enough to drive a truck through. 
Bigger even than the one NFS opens. Granted, if this was all done with 
trusted servers it would be really neat, but...

                                        Dan

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