From: Rob Muhlestein <rmuhlestein@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T04:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick DOS Security Flaw

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:55:59 -0500, Rob Muhlestein wrote:

> Looks like WEBrick isn't ready for production, but then I think most
> only use it with rails development, if not you may reconsider using in
> any production capacity until this flaw is addressed.
> 
> http://rob.muhlestein.net/2006/12/webrick-security-flaw.html

To the "anonymous comment" person who posted:

>> The WEBrick pure Ruby HTTP server regrettably suffers from a rather
>> novice security flaw making me wonder about maturity of the Ruby and
>> Rails libraries in general
>
> Nice FUD. People have been building production Ruby apps for over 12
> years. And doing quite well.
>
> Are there still bugs in Ruby. Well, I guess so, but this is hardly
> enough to "question the maturity" of the language.
>
> WEBrick may not have been subject to enough scrutiny because no one ever
> suggests using it in production.

First, you are right, that did sound like FUD toward Ruby and you are
right to point out that WEBrick is generally not recommended for
production. I've changed the blog post hopefully to not appear as FUD
toward Ruby itself, but it definitely is FUD for unsuspecting newbies who
might try to use WEBrick as a production web server (a big mistake imho
with the current state of WEBrick, but hopefully we can fix that).

BTW, I wouldn't be bothering with these posts and fix discussions if I
didn't want to see Ruby, Rails, and even WEBrick succeed.

-- 
Rob Muhlestein
http://rob.muhlestein.net