Hi Edgar!

>       Some time ago (few years as well), i need to store the backslash
> "\", the slash "/" and anothers ascii characters on sql server, via an ASP,
> the real thing is I could achieve this converting this characters to an
> ASCII char code style.
[SNIP]
> Is the same thing but only encoded with javascript engine with function
> encode.
>
> Maybe is a good idea maintain the currently style separator is explained by
> Victor, and add the support to add "dots" in host name encoding the dots by
> another charset.
>
> Tell me what do you thing about this.
Hmmm... ok: The issue is not a technical one -- basically from a technical 
point of view it is easy, not to say trivial, to support the dot.
What Victor tried to explain was that there are strong semantics related to 
the dot; just like in DNS. Noone would ever think about replacing the dot -- 
except for hackers and phishers that try to replace the dot in 
netbanking.mybank.com to be able to register the domain for their fishing 
stuff...
In Vuurmuur it is just the same (not yet that critical because of slightly 
less users than DNS has... ;-) ): The dot separates zones from networks and 
hosts or groups. Being able to seperate them is quite important: You have to 
think about structuring your network when using the Firewall. The concept is 
close to how DNS works, or at least it appears to be, but there is a huge 
difference in practice: zones are not compareable to top level domains...
I hope this helps to clarify the issue...

-- Adi


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