Revolution, MySQL vs FileMaker

[Luis]

True, but in that instance I'd push it all over an encrypted channel. 
Especially so if it's an externally hosted database.

Cheers,

Luis.


Josh Mellicker wrote:
> 
> On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Luis wrote:
> 
>> Hiya,
>>
>> You have to be careful with some providers, quite a few of them will 
>> not allow remote connections, only local access (such as using php on 
>> the server) to server the data.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Luis.
> 
> 
> If your site has cPanel, there is a section where you can add access 
> hosts by IP, in a box that also says:
> 
> Host (% wildcard is allowed):
> 
> the % means any remote client can connect (if they know the username, 
> password and domain)
> 
> I examined security issues, but if someone can sniff this info they can 
> also sniff the info you're passing to serverside middleware and so I 
> don't see how this is any more insecure than other options.
> 
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