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On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:19:13 +0100, Paul Weaver wrote: > I almost threw up at work today - I was told how much a box cost that filtered > everything going to a network except XML packets to a given port. We're Shouldn't application level filtering be done by the actual application? I can't quite amazed to see people expecting a firewall to do this. I should get my firewall to also make my tea. Anyway... XML is security problem prone. Huge or strangely formed XML can crack up parsers, and waste a lot of resources. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.