From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@...>
Date: 2004-12-17T04:57:22+09:00
Subject: Re: P2P application in 15 lines of Python posted on slashdot

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:37:13PM +0900, Florian Gross scribed:
> >
> >I did this 9.5 hours ago. Compared to the python one it is not 
> >vulnerable to File stealing attacks (a client can request a file 
> >../foobar and ~/foobar from the python server and will get it back 
> >AFAIK) and 6 lines long. It is however vulnerable to the DRb style 
> >.instance_eval exploits. I will fix this shortly, but I might have to 
> >use 7 lines then.
> 
> Here we go. Thanks to Mauricio Fern?ndez for helping out with cutting 
> off a few important characters!

Nice use of drb.

I wonder how long the same program would be in ruby if it implemented 
the "tinyp2p" protocol instead of using drb. ;)

  -dave

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