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Comment on "Conficker" Virus Attacks Tomorrow! by Josh Jordan

Josh Jordan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:48:01 +0000

Hah, yes, there are legitimate uses of RPC. Unfortunately, they are typically rooted in developer laziness. Anything you can do with RPC, you could do with something that is worlds more secure, such as a SOA approach.

It does let people develop quickly, so I won't count out my love for hubris, but I'd be willing to bet that there are more successful RPC exploits than there are successful commercial RPC implementations.

Comment on "Conficker" Virus Attacks Tomorrow! by Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:32:38 +0000

At least my Ubuntu desktop will be safe.

Is there any legitimate use of RPC, or is it there just for hacker amusement?

Comment on "Conficker" Virus Attacks Tomorrow! by Josh Jordan

Josh Jordan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:47:15 +0000

Nope, Macs are safe

The security exploit was Windows-only.

Comment on "Conficker" Virus Attacks Tomorrow! by Ali

Ali — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:42:55 +0000

ok is this gonna effect macs??

Comment on How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET by Josh Jordan

Josh Jordan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:10:09 +0000

James,

You're absolutely right. What I meant to say was that there are HttpModule approaches that can be linked up through the Web.config file that are less dynamic. Indeed, the Global.asax approach really is an HttpModule approach. Thanks for the clarification.

Comment on How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET by James Craig

James Craig — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:01:15 +0000

I just wanted to point out that there is no difference to doing what you propose above with an HttpModule and your Global.asax code. With the HttpModule approach, you'd simply tie into the Application.BeginRequest event and go from there. Either way the code is firing during the same event...

Comment on How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET by KiggFish

KiggFish — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:41:42 +0000

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Comment on How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET by Josh Jordan

Josh Jordan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:18:07 +0000

Well, there are many more parties concerned with your application than just the user and a search engine. The developer and the developer's organization are also major players. Plain and simple, it is generally much easier (read: faster, more robust, and less error-prone) to structure your application in such a way that it revolves around receiving numeric IDs in the querystring rather than "prettified" URLs. As mentioned in the article, URL rewriting prevents you from having to create a separate Aspx page for each friendly URL that you want to accept. Perhaps I misunderstood the question. If the second choice you are referring to is the result of URL rewriting, why not bother with URL rewriting?

Comment on How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET by Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:12:18 +0000

"Which one looks better to your eye? Probably the second one. It gives the user some important information about what might be on that page. Which one looks better to a search engine? Definitely the second one."

Then why should you even bother with URL rewriting if both concerned parties prefer the second choice?

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How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET | .NET Development at JoshJordan.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:08:17 +0000

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