Hi Linicks,

Doing an eval or s///ee with a value supplied by a user on an HTML form is the equivalent of giving that user shell access to the machine. You keep saying that only you know the address of the machine, but if security by obscurity is your only security, then one day, for example if your page is discovered by a crawler, that'll mean game over for your server. That's why everyone has been saying to be very careful with eval and security by obscurity, and they are right!

To make one more recommendation because I don't think it's been made yet: At least throw some HTTP digest authentication on there along with the SSL.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^3: Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by haukex
in thread Passing a regex from a CGI HTML form by Linicks

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