> I have been pestering Ann Harrison to custom build me one of these. I

think

> there would be a great market for an "Internet capable" version of

Firebird.

> ISP's ought to be clamoring for it! But, you are certainly right that so

far

> you would have to be crazy to open your InterBase port 3050 to the world
> wide web.
>
> It shouldn't take all that much to tighten things up here. I anxiously

await

> this coming to pass.

I think part of the requirement to achieve this would be to add a memo field
type. On the web people generally perform a lot of searching on words, if
you need a lot of text you must use a BLOB which does not support LIKE,
therefore making it unsearchable.

Pete