Code Security When Using LiveCode Server

[Phil Davis]

On 4/21/12 11:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
> > In developing a site using LiveCode server, I’d be interested in your
> > thoughts on keeping prying eyes away from LiveCode scripts.  I
> > imagine that keeping the scripts in files and stacks, as opposed to
> > embedded in web pages, is the best thing.
>
> Why not?
>
> Jacque's right about the difference between the raw page and what the user 
> gets, but personally I find embedding tons of LiveCode into my HTML 
> distracting; I prefer to put simple function call in HTML and let libraries 
> handle the rest.

Amen to this. Being a long-time desktop app builder, I find it an order of 
magnitude easier to work with stacks in the IDE than to work on code 
intermingled with HTML. In one big web app I stash all my lib stacks in a folder 
on the server machine that is outside the web server's reach, but still 
accessible as lib stacks via the server's file system. The app's web pages 
contain only enough LC to start using the libs and they do almost everything. 
I'm pretty confident no one will ever get them unless I have a serious non-web 
kind of security breach.

Phil Davis


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