dragonchild with all due respect, I would disagree and assert that there's no inherent ill in using client-side Perl script, as compared to any other scripting language. Perlscript is no less secure than Javascript, or VisualBasic for that matter.

But I concur with your point that putting too much client-side code up may be a dangerous thing. There are a couple home-nodes here were you can find javascript that steals your cookies and reveals a bunch of other JavaScript holes. In the end however, the choise of proper balance is all left to developer(s) involved. There are a lot of cases where you simply can't go by without client-side scripting. Things that spring to mind are form input validation (prior to the form being submitted), some DHTML stuff, and so forth. These things are hardly prone to any exploits. The worst one could do with them is mess up webpage appearance... However, if I was presented with a choice, I'd go for PerlScript vs Javascript. ;-)

Update 1: In a gesture that could be deemed as self-defense, let me clarify that I think client-side perl is going to be somewhat limited in it's faculties than it's server-side equivalent, just as is the case with Javascript now. So, there's no reason to be panicky about PerlScript being so immensely powerful as to open ways for new creative hacks ;-).

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