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Re: [cobalt-developers] OT ? Interbase - how to have auto email when db date value is current date

Bruce,

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:38, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> 
> You could kludge it by doing a cron job that consists of
> 
> lynx www.example.com/triggerpage.asp

Good idea, however I wonder what the load would be like.
You sure would not want that job running to often. When it does if it
has allot of emails to send out may really slow things down.

Now from a security point of view. What's to stop someone from
discovering the asp page? If someone found it and requested it, you
would be sending emails out more often than you may want to. :0

IMHO if it does need to be publicly available, make it private. htaccess
could be a band aid to assist but things are starting to get messy now.

Not only will you be using a kludge, but you will be wearing a bandaid
as well. ;)

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William L. Thomson Jr.
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