On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 22:26 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 20.09.2006 at 13:38:42 -0400, Christopher Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > On 9/20/06, Mike Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If you're by chance running Apache and PHP, XML/SOAP services are 
> > > extremely
> > > easy to do (for the experienced PHP user) and could obviously
> > > be tied to Pgres on the backend very quickly.  WSDL functionality is fully
> > > integrated.
> > 
> >  Yeah.  I've got two things I need to shove PO's into SL/LedgerSMB.
> > Sales created by a web store (written in PHP) and data coming from my
> > client's VAN. So, I figure if I build the integration into the ledger
> 
> I'd like to chime in, slinging my 0.02 cents worth of mud around.
> 
> If you're going to enter PHP into your fork, it'll be doomed from day
> two (assuming day one is already over). Especially, all claims to
> attempting the creation of a secure application will be voided
> immediately.
> 
Boy are you a pessimist.

Security is only as good as the application coder.
PHP is not inherently insecure, although careless coding can make
applications using it insecure.

> Please consider something sensible. Both Perl and Python have lots of
> modules around which should make it a breeze for you doing
> XML-Something. Really.
> 
> For Perl: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=xmlrpc&mode=all (5 pages
> of stuff at least)
> 
> For Python: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html and then look out for
> 'xml'
> 
True, there are lots of tools available (some secure and some not so),
but that does not invalidate others being developed (securely).

> 
> Thank you for listening!
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> --Toni++
> 
> 
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