[Gambas-user] http component is ready but...

[Brian G]

Oliver C, 

Why not open source the project, Every project in linux it's self is open source and I believe Apache is also open source.... 
What happens if some person impersonates your install, we have no way to verify the source. 
What happens if you die...... where are we all when we can not fix anything. 

It is not just a trust thing, it is a practical thing, You are just you, not a huge company that will continue after your gone. 
There is no point using something for a serious project if there will be no reliable future for it. 

I think you believe that your code is better than the collective project Apache has become, and which is used and relied upon by many projects huge and small. It may well be a true statement but how do we evaluate that. 

Exposing your code to scrutiny and the judgement of other is extremely educational, satisfying and occasionally mortifying...lol 

If the code you have developed is truly secure then lets all review it, but if you feel that it can be hacked, is it truly a secure solution for your web server.... umm I don't really think so... Hackers are a very persistent lot! And know more about the web than most of us will truly understand.... 

So I would encourage you to share and expand what you have put so much work into creating! Contribute it to this amazing gambas community that Ben has created. It is an amazing open source project. We have all benefited from it in many ways. 

Contribution and support is something we can all do for this community! 

cheers 

Brian G 


From: "Bruce Steers" <bsteers4 at gmail.com> 
To: "Gambas mailing list" <user at lists.gambas-basic.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 8:08:43 AM 
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] http component is ready but... 







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And can put on the gambas farm an installation package without the sources? 




Short answer, No 
you know the gambas executable is just an archive of the entire source folder yes? 

you may be heading towards an answer to your original question that was.. 
Why has nobody used [ http://gb.net/ | gb.net ] to make a web server? 

possibly because there is apache and the like that are full of security features. 

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And is a strong soft, with strong configurations issues, with strong memory need,etc... 
I Know that, but, my goal is to made a simple way to make simple program communicate on web with simple peoples make it run :) 

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There are many security features / protocols available. 
Proper security (not a quick hack) is not a "simple" thing. 
If you want simple way for simple tool then keep it simple. 

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And besides,, who is to trust you ? 
If you close your source so nobody can read it, nobody will use it. 

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Windows system is not open source, and we can't say "nobody use it" :) 

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I don't , I don't trust it. 
Windows is for the sheep , everybody here knows this, that's why we Linux instead ;) 
You cannot compare Linux to Windows at all. 
Windows is completely corporate based so yes, closed source, private code, copyrites and trust it if you want, make and pay the money. 
Linux is open source community based. 
If you're thinking , secrecy and maybe make some money then your probably better off with VisualBasic 


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who's to say you don't have malicious code in there? 

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Me :) 

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Do you see? 

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I see that Gambas can't be a solution for soft that need minimum security :) 

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It is if you want to implement "proper" security protocols and not just hack your way through.. ;) 

it's the same everywhere in the Linux world. 
The world of open source may not be the world for you my friend. 

BruceS 



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