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Re: Handling of Private messages. [message #28850 is a reply to message #28803]

Sun, 13 November 2005 11:21

defa

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O.K. Sorry for that safemode thing - really seems to work in the current stable.

Well, my main critic wasn't the storing of private messages in files. My critic is, that they are stored in one single file.

As I allready told the behaviour of fudForum if a user deletes a message absolutely dissatisfying. In my eyes a delete operation should cause the vanish of the whole message from the server.

This operation is actually very difficult, because the header and the body of the message are stored in two different locations. Well, that would be no problem if the body-files would be in an atomic form - i.e. private/<message_id>.msg

But at the moment the are stored in that one file an is not transparent as it should be how fudForum finds out at which line the message starts and where it stops.

Even worse, it causes fudForum to display messages to users who aren't the real reciepients, if the private file is corrupted in some way.

I don't want to troll arround here or blame you Ilja, but I see a lot of problems in the current implementation of private message handling regarding security of the forum and privacy of the users. This could be easily avoided by storing the messages in a clean way and implementing a clean 1 to 1 corealtion. Ask anyone who has to do with databases an handling of large data amounts an he will tell you that this is the only way for a clean implementation.

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defa

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		Handling of Private messages. By: defa on Sun, 06 November 2005 15:42
		Re: Handling of Private messages. By: Ilia on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:11
		Re: Handling of Private messages. By: defa on Sun, 13 November 2005 11:21
		Re: Handling of Private messages. By: Ilia on Sun, 13 November 2005 16:38
		Re: Handling of Private messages. By: defa on Wed, 16 November 2005 16:16
		Re: Handling of Private messages. By: Ilia on Wed, 16 November 2005 19:31

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