Re: My new toy
On Aug 30, 12:50 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:58:19 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Thompson
<andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :
But if you want to get daring, you might try an
online compiler, and a place to host (short) code
samples for 7 days while asking for help on forums.
....
My ISP warned me I have to do everything with an eye to somebody
maliciously trying to foul things up.
The on-line code examples provides a 'barn door'
of possible security/use problems, unfortunately
(the main reason I removed my own site's online
compiler).
Off the top of my head..
1) Trying to upload source that is 53 Meg
2) Inclusion of tawdry (racist, sexist, ...)
or advertising/spam material in code samples.
3) Particular types of code have been known to
tie up the javac compiler for a *long* time,
resulting to a DOS attack. (Though sometimes,
it might be unintentional on the part of the
user). I don't know if the compiler has been
improved since that time, and have lost the
source that demonstrated the effect.
--
Andrew T.
pscode.org