[IRCServices Coding] Feature Request

[Russ Garrett]

Tom Moyer wrote:

>So not talking about the java Chat side, what about Registering Nicknames
>online, and possibly having a memo Retrival system online.  So it can be
>accessed Via HTTP?
>  
>
I think it raises the same point - to be honest I don't like a web 
interface on the end of services at all - IMHO any external (non-IRC) 
access should be on another heavily-access-controlled end of the 
database. Although I have all faith in Andy's web server coding, I'd 
rather my web access was done by a web server, and my IRC services 
handled by services, both sharing a common database backend (any news on 
the MySql plugin? ;) - this is the whole point in unix in general - many 
specialist programs working together, to a better (faster, more secure) 
end than one large behemoth of a services/web server/microwave/kitchen 
sink.

BTW, I haven't been around much because we've merged with some friends' 
net, who run Epona, so that spares you my endless XML nit-picking until 
I can convert them to IRCServices ("friends don't let friends use Epona" ;).

Russ Garrett (russ at garrett.co.uk)
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