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Hi guys. I've never really used Flash or AS before, but I've used PHP / ASP/ ASP.NET / HTML / CSS / JS extensively. The main dislike I have with each of these is that:
1. File A links (or posts / gets ) to file B, file B to file C, etc etc. All this jumping around (mainly the fact that file Y expects to recieve a value from file X) is a common security hole that is often exploited. If file Y does not check that it IS ACTUALLY file X posting the value, a spoofing attack can be made.
2. HTML based pages contain publicly viewable code. This shows how roughly 50% of your system works. Any code executed or rendered on the client side is now viewable by a potential hacker. He is now happy.
Basically, I'm thinking about giving ActionScript a go (since both AS and JS were derived from ECMAscript, it shouldnt be too much of a learning curve). However, the main 'turn off' that I have with it is that I'm seeing it as more of a 'designers' scripting language, offering limited functionality to commune with a DBMS such as SQL Server 2005 / 2008, to send HTML based mail, to perform eCommerce / eBusiness operations (financial transactions), etc. Is this just a 'programmers misconception' that I've developed, or am I correct in saying that AS 3.0 has almost no real functionality?
1. File A links (or posts / gets ) to file B, file B to file C, etc etc. All this jumping around (mainly the fact that file Y expects to recieve a value from file X) is a common security hole that is often exploited. If file Y does not check that it IS ACTUALLY file X posting the value, a spoofing attack can be made.
2. HTML based pages contain publicly viewable code. This shows how roughly 50% of your system works. Any code executed or rendered on the client side is now viewable by a potential hacker. He is now happy.
Basically, I'm thinking about giving ActionScript a go (since both AS and JS were derived from ECMAscript, it shouldnt be too much of a learning curve). However, the main 'turn off' that I have with it is that I'm seeing it as more of a 'designers' scripting language, offering limited functionality to commune with a DBMS such as SQL Server 2005 / 2008, to send HTML based mail, to perform eCommerce / eBusiness operations (financial transactions), etc. Is this just a 'programmers misconception' that I've developed, or am I correct in saying that AS 3.0 has almost no real functionality?