RE: [Firebird-devel] Using Fbembed as a client for IB5.6

[Dmitry Y. <di...@us...>]

Mike,

> Or are you (seriously, as can be read from your post)
> suggesting that the
> local-only (embedded) server should act as mediator for
> remote connections also?

That's how people want the embedded server to work. The current builds allow
fbembed.dll to be a client for remote servers.

> Local in-process server, aka "fbembed" is AFAIK what it tells
> you to be. If
> someone added remote capabilities to that DLL, all of a
> sudden it would have
> just those remote access capabilities - i.e. it would be a
> security problem.

The embedded server is a big security problem by just the fact of its
existence, because the application has full access to the internal engine
structures, page cache, etc.


Dmitry