in reply to Calling Perl from HTML

Wow, I definitely get stupid points for today. Ignore the alarmist idiot monk that was posing as myself this morning. Ignore the rest of my post and use strict, get rid of those ^M and test the script on the cmdline to see where you are failing exactly.

Removed stupid alarmist speak about how to securify your CGI scripts

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This code is pretty insecure, I really suggest reading some more about writing secure cgi programs.

Now as to your specific problem, the sendmail program may not be runnable by your http process, I would consider another module like Mail::Mailer or its kin.

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Re: Calling Perl from HTML
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 15, 2002 at 14:13 UTC
    What is your point? The program as presented isn't insecure at all - everything is set from within the program. It would pass -T without a problem.

    Of course you get problems if you do what you suggested above. But then, you will get the same problem if you do 

        system "/bin/rm -rf /";

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    But that's just stupid, not insecure.

    Abigail

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      Plot Thickens: Turns out that the CGI is running, in that it sends an email to the account I specify, yet it still shows the error as reported -- I placed a generic print "test"; before the Close (SENDMAIL) and that never happens?!
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      You're right and I definitely failed the stupid test today, sorry to have wasted your time/space on that.
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        Stajich: You mentioned reading up on CGI Security - but the olderlink you posted doesnt work - any suggestions? Michael
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