Fooling perl is hard, fooling a Perl script is not so. You do agree that CGI scripts can expose vulnerabilities to a cracker, right? Obviously it is so, otherwise we would not have a lot of tutorials, meditations, nodes, newsgroup posts and who knows what other form of posting in all the different media Perl is discussed via, dealing with how to secure one's CGI scripts.

I also don't follow the reasoning that HTTP::Daemon is the daemon, but the script is not. Granted the specifics of the HTTP protocol are not handled in the script, but use HTTP::Daemon; loads the code inside the same interpreter and process the script runs in. The script does quite certainly provide daemon's actual, functional innards.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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