I agree with George; warnings and errors are nothing for normal user, and may sometimes even become dangerous
(e.g. open (FILE, $file) or die "can't read password from $file: $!"; or the like. Because with some providers, you have to keep "sensible" data in directories that might eventually be accessed by web ).

Another reason why I always remove -w (use warnings) in production systems, as well as qw(fatalsToBrowser) and try to do some defensive programming, to try to catch all errors that might happen is that I don't want to confront users with errormessages they won't understand or won't be able to do anything against.

In cgi-scripts, I only use die for really serious errors; more often, I write an own error-outputting-routine that cares about returning a complete html-page.

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

In reply to Re: Does fatalsToBrowser give too much information to a cracker? by strat
in thread Does fatalsToBrowser give too much information to a cracker? by rinceWind

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