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Important advisory for people running Frontier 5.1 and 5.0.2 betas on Windows.

The problem, illustrated in a simple script:

file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html ")
file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html.")
file.exists ("C:\\apache\\htdocs\\index.html. ")
All three statements are true.

News.com: Windows bug exposes script source code.

Jason Levine explains the loophole and offers a little history. It's a serious hole.

Earlier today, Bob Denny, the developer of O'Reilly's server, acknowledged the hole and said it will be fixed in an upcoming release.

MacAddict: Frontier 5.1.

W3C: Redefining HTML as an application of XML.

The second Frontier 5.1 HOWTO explains how to use the People suite to manage multi-user access to resources and services.

     

Last update: Friday, October 31, 2003 at 3:26 AM Eastern.

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