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On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 17:06 +0000, Juuso Hukkanen wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">answer 1:</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">Most servers are already configured to read the requested pages before </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">submitting those over the internet.</FONT></TT><BR>
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What do you base this on? I can't say I've ever seen a server set up to parse HTML content<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">For example my above form-page has </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">a small php-script inside which the server program must notice; as the </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">PHP-program needs to compile the script. Client never sees the <?php </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> part but is instead shown an URL.</FONT></TT><BR>
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PHP is a server language, parsed by the PHP program not the server software (i.e. Apache or IIS) and as such, only parse PHP code within PHP tags, not the HTML.<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">To </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">implement meta-encrypt tag would just require (on/off) configuring </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">server program to read the header of requested page and see if there </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">is a meta-encrypt tag in there the server calls a program which </FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#131312">decrypts! the client submitted data.</FONT></TT><BR>
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What you're suggesting is that web servers be set up to parse HTML pages, or an extra server module (like PHP) to parse HTML content. Not only would this impact on the speed of some sites, but it's likely going to be harder to convince web hosting companies to update their web server software than it is to convince offices to upgrade a browser (and anyone who's ever worked in an office will know how hard it is to get updates and new software installed)<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Ash<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk">http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk</A><BR>
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