[AccessD] OT Question that will be simple for those that know

Thanks for that Shamil... I am slowly putting all the pieces together.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil
Salakhetdinov
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 11:39 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Question that will be simple for those that know

> Do I sound paranoid?...
Yes :)
You can switch this feature off.

<<<
ViewState is generally used for persisting form data on a page across round
trips. Do not use ViewState to store information such as passwords,
connection strings, and file paths.
>>>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconmantainingstateincontrol.asp

Shamil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Question that will be simple for those that know


> Thanks Bryan, Stuart and John for the information. I was initially sort of
> wondering what that 'value ="dDwtNjIxMjI0NzQ...' was now I am very
curious.
> If it doesn't have a reason and is more of a problem that it is worth why
is
> it there? Is MS really spying on us storing encrypted data in our browsers
> that work like cookies? Does the data block just hold state variables or
can
> it hold code?
>
> Do I sound paranoid?...
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:15 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Question that will be simple for those that know
>
> On 3 Oct 2005 at 0:21, John W. Colby wrote:
>
> > LOL, Stuart, are you SERIOUSLY saying I should worry about tens of
> kilobytes
> > of useless junk moving around the web
>
> Nope, just pointing at a website that explains what _viewstate does :-)
>
> The bit about "tell JC" was in response to Bryan's comment:
> "The only time that I have ever seen this is when a PostNuke site that
> I run was hacked. it too me about 3 days to "decode" it (don't ask me
> how I did it, I don't remember) and it was a redirect to or from a
> Warez site."
>
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