[xsd-users] XSD phoning home

[Laura E Fowler]

Boris,

Thanks for the information. I tried at one point to get the specifics of 
when they see it phone home, but I couldn't get any details. I'll pass 
along what you have said and see if we can get them to test it again. Does 
it perhaps connect during the install?

Laura Fowler
www.raytheon.com


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From:
Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
To:
Laura E Fowler <Laura_E_Fowler at raytheon.com>
Cc:
xsd-users at codesynthesis.com
Date:
01/19/2011 07:55 AM
Subject:
Re: [xsd-users] XSD phoning home



Hi Laura,

Laura E Fowler <Laura_E_Fowler at raytheon.com> writes:

> We have used XSD for a couple of years and it has worked very well, but 
> recently our IT security group was reviewing CodeSynthesis XSD and they 
> disapproved it because it phones home to an unknown IP address.

We are very certain XSD does not do that. In fact, we even disable the
network support code in Xerces-C++ when building pre-compiled binaries
of the XSD compiler to make sure there is no network access of any kind,
even if the schemas being compiles have remote references.

Could you ask your IT security group to share the information on how
to reproduce what they have observed?

Thanks
                 Boris