3rd Party Components

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The service, speeds and uptime here has been great but what ticks me off continuously in the refusal of JodoHost to install my 3rd party component. I designed a component for one of my site's that does some data manipulation routines and stores them in a local file (which would be in my virtual dir). I can give oral as well as written assurances that it would not in anyway damage, corrupt or negatively impact the servers. Why can't Jodohost do this? So many hosts do it, even the established names... aren't you losing customers because you ignoring such a simple and common demand?
 
We just cannot install 3rd party or user made components on a shared server; they pose a considerable risk. We install components like ASPUpload, ASPImage, Linkpoint, Authorize.net etc. These components are tested and supported by large companies.

We have no idea what exploits exists with these things. We as hosts have a fiduciary responsibility to all our customers and to install something like this we would be negligent in our jobs and be risking serious possible consequences to all our customers.

We do not set our security policy looking at our competitors. Yes, we are probably losing some customers and we are willing to go with that as it is far better than having to deal with a downed, corrupted or hacked server.

You as a developer will of course believe your component is safe but many times exploits can exist which you yourself may not be aware of. The components we have installed have been considerably tested on a shared environment (by many, many companies) and most, if not all exploits ironed out
 
I have had to re-write old COM components too but the real answer is to write it all in .NET... then you can do what you want.
-Dave
 
Yash wrote [We install components like ASPUpload, ASPImage, Linkpoint, Authorize.net etc.]

Is there a list of available components and what they do?
 
I've tried using the aspHTTP control, according to the documentation on the company's website: http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/asphttp3.htm

I don't get anything returned, not even an error code. I should be able to at least get the version number, to confirm the control is being loaded, with this code:

Set HTTPObj = Server.CreateObject("AspHTTP.Conn")
response.write(HTTPObj.Version)

Is this control installed or is it a different version, or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.
 
Yash wrote [We install components like ASPUpload, ASPImage, Linkpoint, Authorize.net etc.]

I don't see ASPImage, Linkpoint or Authorize.net listed on the page you referred me to. Is the page out of date?

As a suggestion, it would be nice if the list included, at the very least, a link back to the vendor's documentation for the component. That's kind of the nice thing about web pages. :))

Thanks!
 
Dave said:
Yash wrote [We install components like ASPUpload, ASPImage, Linkpoint, Authorize.net etc.]

I don't see ASPImage, Linkpoint or Authorize.net listed on the page you referred me to. Is the page out of date?

As a suggestion, it would be nice if the list included, at the very least, a link back to the vendor's documentation for the component. That's kind of the nice thing about web pages. :))

Thanks!
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I also would like to know if, especially aspimage, is installed.
 
Hmmm... it's unusual to go 2 or 3 days with no official replies. But in answer to eko's question about ASPImage, it is installed. I've been experimenting with it to see what it does.

The documentation can be found at:
http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/Aspimage.htm

I'm wondering what the "etc." components might be. Maybe someone is working on an up-to-date list?
 
Hi

I'm extremely sorry. This thread was missed by me (thought I had answered it). Yes, ASPImage is definately available.

We'll have a component list available in the next couple of weeks. I'll have that sent via email.
 
Dave said:
I've tried using the aspHTTP control, according to the documentation on the company's website: http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/asphttp3.htm

I don't get anything returned, not even an error code. I should be able to at least get the version number, to confirm the control is being loaded, with this code:

Set HTTPObj = Server.CreateObject("AspHTTP.Conn")
response.write(HTTPObj.Version)

Is this control installed or is it a different version, or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any help.
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Thanks for the reply about the list of components. That will be useful information. Perhaps it won't list the ASPHttp component, which would explain why I couldn't get it to work. If it is on the list, I'll still be at a loss as to what I was doing wrong.
 
Sorry, missed this thread again

ASPHttp is definately supported. Have you tried using any of its functions?
 
I tried following the examples in the component's documentation, none of which worked, which lead me to ask the question. I couldn't get anything to output regardless of which function I tried. In the example I posted here, not even the version number of the component was returned.

The official documentation is admittedly skimpy, so I thought maybe there was something I was doing wrong.
 
Dave

You'll have to point me to the page where you are running this script. Post it here or open a ticket if you'd like that to be kept private
 
Hi Yash,

Thanks for following up. I was just doing some very simple testing just to get it working, so there wasn't much to look at. However, I just ran the code again, but now I get a server error, which was more than I was getting before.

You can see the code, and the error it generates at this location:

http://www.voices-for-change.com/test_aspHTTP.asp

The very slightly modified code (I changed the URL being pointed to and attempted to output the results) is taken directly from the vendor's documentation at http://www.serverobjects.com/comp/asphttp3.htm

Thanks!
 
Great thanks! I guess you don't have too many people using it at the moment if no one noticed before that it wasn't working.

I'll check it out again...

Update: Works like a charm! Thanks once again!
 
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